Black Bottom can refer to several things. In many cities, the term has been used to describe African American neighborhoods.
- Black Bottom, Alabama
- Black Bottom, Detroit, a historical former neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan
- Black Bottom, Kentucky
- Black Bottom (Philadelphia), a former neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Black Bottom, West Virginia
- Black Bottom (dance)
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or bottom:
“On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)