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Behind the News: A Slow Civil War w/ Jeff Sharlet

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Freedom House and the Urban Renewal Process

Urban renewal developed this really negative reputation before urban renewal. A civil rights oriented sort of settlement house called Freedom House which had been funded by to a couple auto and aerial Snowden their social workers black couple that met in their living room. They saw urban renewal as a real opportunity for Washington Park here were federal dollars on the table they saw their neighborhood as being potentially able to benefit from.

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