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Tag Archives: 1928 Master Plan
Black dispossession study starts to quantify cost of city's 1928 master plan
The city’s 1928 master plan, which effectively legalized segregation in Austin and limited public services for Black residents to a newly created “Negro District” east of what is now Interstate 35, has cost Black homeowners in just five neighborhoods –…
