12/23/2015
House museums are the figureheads of historic preservation issues, but they aren't the only places where history matters.
"'Maryland, including the City of Baltimore, has exhibited a preference for its white residents over its African American residents in highway construction decisions since at least the 1930s,' the complaint reads.
In the 1960s, 'government officials devised new expressway proposals, all of which planned to use at least a portion of the predominantly African-American Franklin-Mulberry corridor in Baltimore’s Harlem Park neighborhood,” the complaint reads. “As a result, Harlem Park residents stopped investing in their homes, and the neighborhood became filled with deteriorating and abandoned buildings.'"
Governor Larry Hogan’s decision to eliminate a long-planned light rail line serving African American neighborhoods and switch funds to roads in the suburbs has prompted a civil rights suit