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Apr 7, 2021 · A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways. Some of the country's highways were built through existing Black and brown communities. President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to ...
- Noel King
- Robert Moses: ‘Go Right Through Cities and Not Around Them’
- Black Neighborhoods Were Decimated
- Highway Construction Bolstered Segregation and Accelerated 'White Flight'
One of the most influential post-World War IIurban planners was New York City’s “construction coordinator” Robert Moses, who oversaw all public works projects in the nation’s largest metropolis, including an astonishing array of its roadways, bridges, tunnels, housing projects and parks. Not only was Moses arguably the most powerful unelected offic...
In the first half of the 20th century, Miami’s culturally vibrant Black community of Overtown was widely considered the “Harlem of the South” and “Little Broadway.” But after the passage of the 1956 highway bill, the expansion of I-95 through Miami led to the destruction of 87 acres of housing and commercial property in the community. According to ...
At the time the highways were being built, the civil rights movement was gaining momentum. Congress and federal courts began to outlaw racist housing tactics such as restrictive housing covenants that prevented Black residents from buying into white neighborhoods and “redlining," a longstanding governmental zoning practice that had denied federally...
- Farrell Evans
Apr 23, 2021 · In addition to fixing highways, bridges and roads, the proposal calls for an investment of $20 billion into communities that have historically been hurt by infrastructure projects.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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Nov 11, 2021 · Nov. 11, 2021 3 AM PT. When President Eisenhower created the U.S. Interstate Highway System in 1956, transportation planners tore through the nation’s urban areas with freeways that, through ...
