Hakim's Bookstore and Gift Shop

Hakim's Bookstore and Gift Shop is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia County, dedicated 2023.

Philadelphia County · dedicated 2023 · 210 S. 52nd Street

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Founded in the 1950s by Dawud Hakim, it was the first Black-owned book-store in Phila. special-izing in Black history and titles by Black authors. A civil rights and Black activism gathering space in the 1960s, it was surveilled by the FBI along with other Black bookstores.

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