ASHEVILLE - Known for her photographs depicting the "twilight" of Asheville's Black neighborhoods prior to urban renewal, the photographer and historian Andrea Clark died Oct. 29, her friends confirmed to the Citizen Times. She was 80.

Born in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Clark moved to Asheville in the 60s and would soon begin her award-winning photography that has offered a glimpse into community stories that otherwise could've been forgotten. From 1965 to 1980, government urban renewal would take the households of 116 residents in the East End/Valley Street and the land of approximately 930 residents in the Southside neighborhood, according to urbanrenewalimpact.net and the city of Asheville.

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