“In a kind of parting shot… as whites fled, those highways [to suburbia] were often routed specifically through African American neighborhoods…. “In Durham, for example, [N.C.] Route 147 was built to help connect the downtown manufacturing and business center with land being developed and sold almost exclusively to whites in suburbs north of the city. […]
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Bulldozing through the Harlem of the South
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged anne lutz fernandez, carjacked: the culture of the automobile and its effect on our lives, catherine lutz, durham nc, harlem of the south, nc 147, white flight on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »