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Jul 28, 2021 · The West End area of Cincinnati was home to around 25,000 predominantly Black residents who were forced to relocate in the 1950s and ‘60s to make way for I-75. The neighborhood was flattened in ...
Apr 7, 2021 · So, for example, courts were striking down the use of racial zoning to keep Black people in certain communities and white people in other communities. And so the highway development popped up at a ...
- Noel King
Oct 20, 2021 · Shortly after the highway bill, the construction of a vast roadway system cut through the Black neighborhood of Rondo in St. Paul, Minnesota, a mixed-class community known for its thriving ...
- Farrell Evans
May 25, 2021 · *In Montgomery, Alabama, the state highway director, a high-level officer of the Ku Klux Klan, routed Interstate 85 through a neighborhood where many Black civil rights leaders lived, rather than ...
Jun 22, 2021 · The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 authorized the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways that would connect our nation. But those highways also displaced and divided Black communities.
Feb 5, 2024 · Traditionally, most maps did not accurately reflect the stories of Black people and places: Interstate highway maps, for example, do not reflect the realities that in most U.S. cities the building ...
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May 29, 2014 · It authorized a 41,000 mi limited-access highway system that would be funded through a Highway Trust Fund, “derived from excise taxes on fuel and tires,” Mohl wrote. “The federal government would provide 90% of the cost, with the states contributing the remaining 10%.”. The BPR would provide oversight but “state highway departments ...
