Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore - Hardcover
by Emily Lieb
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Availability:In StockContributor:Emily LiebSeries:Historical Studies of Urban AmericaPublish date:11/6/2025Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844367ISBN-10:226844366UPC:9780226844367Book Category:History, TransportationBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, AutomotiveBook Topic:20th Century, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCK7KJZCCC
Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle-class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226844367ISBN-10:226844366UPC:9780226844367Book Category:History, TransportationBook Subcategory:United States, African American & Black, AutomotiveBook Topic:20th Century, HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCK7KJZCCC
Emily Lieb is a writer and historian in Seattle, Washington.
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