Urban Renewals Legacy

AP News - 1193 days ago
Urban Renewals Legacy
Leola King holds a framed photograph showing her with friend Harold Craft, Wednesday, July 23, 2008, in San Francisco. A half-century ago, the Fillmore neighborhood was nicknamed "Harlem of the West" and hundreds of black-owned businesses, including King's, thrived there. Then the government, using race as a factor in its decision, decreed the area blighted and forced thousands of people from the neighborhood by way of eminent domain. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, the state-and-federally funded agency that managed the project, on Jan. 1, 2009, will without fanfare end one of the nation's longest-running urban renewal projects. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)