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Politics@beehaw.org · 1 year 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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Politics@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

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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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