How Urban Planners Disenfranchised Black Communities in West Oakland

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By Climate NexusMay 9, 2023, 2:05 pm124 pts
In keeping with mid-20th century segregationist federal guidance, West Oakland, California officials in the 1940s deliberately put the most polluting industries and biggest highways in Black neighborhoods – saddling them with cancer, asthma, and other health impacts. In white neighborhoods, diesel-powered…

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