BLACKTOBER: The Other Side of the Tracks Carefree and Black Diaries

Let's talk about how railroads and highways uprooted and segregated Black communities. In the 19th century, the railroad system was used as a means to keep Black communities away from White ones with the highway systems following that model shortly after. 

Article links: 

Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-how-racism-shaped-interstate-highways

Deborah Archer: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3539889

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