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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.

www.propublica.org|Brandi Kellam,Louis Hansen

My alma mater, William & Mary, was involved in this act of racism.

Source: propublica.org

#virginia #newport news #CHristopher newport university #college of william & Mary #racsim #redlining #urban renewal #African Americans

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