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'Root Shock': Urban Renewal and Black Neighborhoods

NPR
Published June 14, 2004 at 10:00 PM MDT

NPR's Tavis Smiley has a conversation with Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove about her book Root Shock, which explores urban renewal programs between 1949 and 1973 and their impact on African-American neighborhoods.

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