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2y ago

Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood

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Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood

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Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood

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tintory @lemm.ee

2y ago

Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood

www.propublica.org /article/how-virginia-college-expanded-by-uprooting-black-neighborhood

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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:
  https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/vanport/
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanport,_Oregon