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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
When the urban planner Robert Moses began building projects in New York during the 1920s, he bulldozed Black and Latino homes to make way for parks, and built highways through the middle of ...
Nov 11, 2021 · Another reason highways went through Black and Latino neighborhoods was political power. As widespread backlash to freeway construction grew in the late 1960s, white communities often were able to ...
- 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
Nov 11, 2021 · Another reason highways went through Black and Latino neighborhoods was political power. As widespread backlash to freeway construction grew in the late 1960s, white communities often were able to ...
Oct 31, 2023 · Through the political process, highways were planned in direct alignment with urban areas, near downtowns, and through low-income and minority neighborhoods. State and local highway directors and ...
Apr 12, 2021 · JOHN MELLENCAMP: (Singing) Well, there's a Black man with a black cat living in a Black neighborhood. He's got a interstate running through his front yard. You know, he thinks he's got it so good. INSKEEP: An interstate running through his front yard - when the U.S. built highways in the 20th century, many ran through Black neighborhoods.
