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Deep Deuce
Deep Deuce historic neighborhood is a district in Downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It consists mostly of low-rise apartment buildings (built primarily in the 2000s) and formerly vacant mixed-use buildings and shops.
Located a few blocks north of Bricktown and centered on NE 2nd Street, Deep Deuce was the largest African-American downtown neighborhood in Oklahoma City in the 1940s and 1950s, and was a regional center of jazz music and black culture and commerce. After the civil rights movement of the 1960s, much of the city's African-American community dispersed to other areas within Oklahoma City.〔Dozier, Ray, "(New life for Deep Deuce )," ''The Journal Record'', December 29, 2000.〕 Much of the neighborhood was bulldozed to make way for I-235 in the 1960s, but the current downtown boom and renaissance has made the area attractive to developers once again. As a result, little of the neighborhood's original character remains today. As of March 2014, ''The Oklahoman'' reported that the area had only one remaining African-American owned business.〔Steve Lackmeyer, ("Amidst Deep Deuce revival, fears of a lost history emerge" ), ''The Oklahoman'', March 3, 2014.〕
African-American writer Ralph Ellison, author of ''Invisible Man'', wrote a poem in tribute to the Deep Deuce (incidentally, he held a great passion for it as it housed his first job) in 1953. The poem is entitled "Deep Second" and can be found in the posthumous book ''Trading Twelves.''
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