Segregation_by_Design
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Using data & remastered historic photos to document the destruction of communities of color by redlining, urban renewal, & freeways. Also potential solutions.
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Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.
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Construction of I-95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents in Overtown—nearly 100% of them Black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's Black community, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.
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Construction of I-94 displaced over 24,000 people in Minneapolis and over 6,000 in St. Paul in the 1960s. The highway was routed through neighborhoods containing over 90% of the region’s total Black population, most famously Rondo in St Paul, home to MN's largest Black community.
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Here’s an animation showing this process in action.
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Aerial footage of Overtown, Miami before and after much of the neighborhood was bulldozed for the construction of I-95 in the 60s. Over 12,000 residents of the neighborhood were displaced for the highway, along with thousands more in subsequent "urban renewal" projects.
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![Greenwood, Tulsa—the famous "Black Wall Street"—before and after highway construction and “urban renewal." "Decades after the Tulsa Race Massacre [in 1921], urban ‘renewal’ [in the 1960s] sparked Black Wall Street’s second destruction," writes Smithsonian Magazine.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1681733026349236235/ext_tw_video_thumb/1681732870895747086/pu/img/KhSZy3cVE7pfOot7.jpg)
Greenwood, Tulsa—the famous "Black Wall Street"—before and after highway construction and “urban renewal." "Decades after the Tulsa Race Massacre [in 1921], urban ‘renewal’ [in the 1960s] sparked Black Wall Street’s second destruction," writes Smithsonian Magazine.
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"Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped," writes Los Angeles Times. The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.
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I-20 in Atlanta was intentionally routed to serve as a “boundary between the white and Negro communities,” in the words of Mayor Hartsfield. Construction displaced an est. 7,500 people in 2,200 homes. Despite making up 37% of Atl's pop. in '60, 60% of those displaced were Black.
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“From 1862 to the 1950s, Southwest DC was home to a thriving African American population,” writes Smithsonian’s NMAAHC. “Community centers, restaurants, schools, and businesses flourished in this working-class neighborhood.” Then, in the 60s, SW was leveled for I-395/695 and urban renewal.
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