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What 'urban renewal' meant for Milwaukee's Black residents
"There have been laws and policies that created some of the disinvestment, the plight, and the wrong that we're experiencing today."—Elmer Moore Jr., CEO of Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority
What 'urban renewal' meant for Milwaukee's Black residents
A series of demolition and construction projects labeled "urban renewal" destroyed Black neighborhoods in Milwaukee, sparking the open housing movement in the 1960s to end housing discrimination.
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