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==References== | ==References== | ||
Gene Foreman, "Urban Renewal: A Decade of Progress Has Brought Impressive Changes to Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' May 29, 1960. | Gene Foreman, "Urban Renewal: A Decade of Progress Has Brought Impressive Changes to Little Rock," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' May 29, 1960. | ||
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| + | *Matilda Tuohey, "Little Rock Has Massive Urban Renewal Program," ''Arkansas Gazette,'' February 17, 1963. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 09:34, 25 August 2008
The Granite Mountain slum clearance effort by the Urban Progress Association working under the Central Little Rock Urban Renewal Project led to the destruction of 163 small homes occupied by black Little Rock residents. The work was accomplished after the 1950 passage of a referendum on slum clearance by city voters.
References
Gene Foreman, "Urban Renewal: A Decade of Progress Has Brought Impressive Changes to Little Rock," Arkansas Gazette, May 29, 1960.
- Matilda Tuohey, "Little Rock Has Massive Urban Renewal Program," Arkansas Gazette, February 17, 1963.
