Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
www.propublica.org Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
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The University of Chicago, U of Illinois at Chicago, and Columbia did similar things. I bet you'd find it has happened at most urban colleges and universities.
Portland was particularly bad: