It also killed Polish, Maltese, Italian, and pretty much every other ethnic neighborhood.
"Dwight Eisenhower, who had admired Hitler's autobahn and got one of his own: the tellingly titled National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Cohesive working-class neighborhoods in countless American cities were sacrificed to the Road Warriors." Bill Kauffman.
E. Michael Jones was one of the earliest writers to point out that the construction/destruction was purposefully aimed to disrupt ethnic neighborhoods in the federal government's ongoing attempt to eliminate every mediating institution between it and the people.
Not Just Tulsa
The 1921 Greenwood massacre remains horrific, but America’s historic black neighborhoods were more often destroyed by urban-renewal policies.
City Journal
