"They don’t believe that we’re even able to define what a place is."
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Learning from Shankleville Scholars in Texas study unincorporated black "Freedom Colonies" formed during Reconstruction and still living communities -- upending conventional assumptions of community planning in the process.
“The definition of planning very often seems to be white people moving black people around,” Roberts says. “And the reason is such because a majority of people who are actual planners or planning educators are white.”
Info on the Purple Hull Pea Festival.
“The definition of planning very often seems to be white people moving black people around,” Roberts says. “And the reason is such because a majority of people who are actual planners or planning educators are white.”
Info on the Purple Hull Pea Festival.
Here's a thing I wrote about Joppa. An enduring freedman's town south of Dallas Texas
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