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Category: Local Government

  • “10% of Negroes In City Evicted For Projects” (May...
  • “Charlottesville Slum Has Rural Atmosphere” (June 19, 1966)
  • “Dr. Paxton Says Negroes Would Lose In Slum Clearance...
  • “Norfolk Councilmember Quits as Vice Mayor” (November 12, 1974)
  • “Residents Say Fulton Bottom Can Be Saved”(January 15, 1967)
  • “Richmonders Tour Norfolk Projects For Urban Renewal” (October 15,...
  • A Master Plan for the Physical Development of the...
  • Burwell Toler (ca. 1822–1880)
  • Decades of Destruction: Urban Renewal in Virginia
  • Fletcher H. Archer (1817–1902)
  • Fulton Oral History Project
  • Gardner L. Boothe (1872–1964)
  • Herbert G. Cochran (1885–1969)
  • John H. Adams (ca. 1848–1934)
  • Josiah Crump (ca. 1838–1890)
  • Pauline Haislip Duncan (1888–1973)
  • Picturing Urban Renewal
  • Roanoke City Council Resolution No. 12381 (May 2, 1955)
  • Traverse Benjamin Pinn Sr. (1840–1888)
  • W. Fred Duckworth (1899–1972)

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