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Urban Renewal
The Purposeful Walk
After losing their homes, schools, and businesses to urban renewal, Brooklyn residents did the best they could to pick up the pieces.
Listen to the recordings below.
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Interviewee: Reverend Janet Garner-Mullins
Topics: Redevelopment promises, lies about moving back, displaced churches and businesses, lost income and wealth, and the Brooklyn Coalition
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Interviewee: Jacqueline Stowe
Topics: Losing Brooklyn schools, hard transition to new schools on the west side, lost community connections, Brooklyn erased, lost heritage
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Interviewee: Spencer Singleton
Topics: Love and comfort of Brooklyn, sharing meals, question of integration, bond issuance and voting, closing of Second Ward High School, protest march
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