If You Don't Know Now, You Know Highways

The federal aid highway act of 19 56 was one of the largest public works projects in american history. It added forty one thousand miles to our interstate system. Planters had an uncanny ability to pick out the black neighborhoods. The route for i 94 in saint paul displaced one in seven the city's black residence. Very few blacks were living in minnesota, one critic noted, but the road builders found them.