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[https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways by Noel King 7/4/21 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways by Noel King 7/4/21 npr] | ||
Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain. | Planners of the interstate highway system, which began to take shape after the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, routed some highways directly, and sometimes purposefully, through Black and brown communities. In some instances, the government took homes by eminent domain. | ||
=====Environmentalism’s Racist History===== | |||
[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history by Jedediah Purdy 13/8/15 THE NEW YORKER] | |||
Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted about thirty degrees to the right. | |||
