This article published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on October 15, 1959, reports on a tour a group of Norfolk city officials and business leaders gave thirty politicians, architects, and business leaders from Richmond of Norfolk’s urban renewal projects. Norfolk’s urban renewal program was the first in the United States and one of the largest.
In an article from the January 15, 1967, issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Black residents whose Fulton Bottom neighborhood was slated for destruction as part of the city’s urban renewal agenda argue that their close-knit community should be preserved and rehabilitated. They cast blame for the disinvestment in the neighborhood on the city and absentee landlords. Ultimately, Fulton Bottom was razed in 1973.
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