Racist Urban Planning

Investigate alterations and limitations of movement; the results of building highways and ceasing public transportation for Black mobility in Arlington.

Subject of Research: The Story of Segregation and Desegregation in Arlington
Source: https://library.arlingtonva.us/2018/01/11/the-desegregation-of-arlington-public-schools/

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Subject of Research: Citizens Call for Experimental Farm in Arlington, 1888
Source: National Endowment for Humanities - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: Alexandria gazette. [volume], April 16, 1888, Image 3.pdf

Subject of Research: Unkept Arlington, 1888
Story: This is a news article published in the Alexandria Gazette about the stark contrast in conditions between Arlington National Cemetery and the rest of the land, which was occupied by black people.
Source: National Endowment for Humanities - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: _Alexandria gazette. [volume], September 04, 1888, Image 1.pdf

Subject of Research: All Is Quiet in Arlington: The Desegregation of Arlington County Public Schools and How We Remember It
Source: Benbow, Ella, "“All Is Quiet in Arlington”: The Desegregation of Arlington County Public Schools and How We Remember It" (2021). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 1713.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/1713

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: _All Is Quiet in Arlington__ The Desegregation of Arlington Count.pdf

Subject of Research: How Eminent Domain Destroyed an Arlington Community
Source: Dr. Nancy Perry is a graduate of the Department of Geography and
Geoinformation Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her dissertation focused on the geographical aspects of segregation for the African American community in Arlington, Virginia. Currently she teaches geography at Helena College in Helena, Montana.

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: 2017-2-Eminent.pdf

Subject of Research: Blacks Show New Strength in Arlington
Source: Virginia Notebook

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: Black_Community_Is_an_Emerging.pdf

Subject of Research: “We didn’t have any other place to live”: Residential Patterns in Segregated Arlington County, Virginia
Source: Author(s): NANCY PERRY, SPENCER CREW and NIGEL M. WATERS
Source: Southeastern Geographer , Vol. 53, No. 4 (Winter 2013), pp. 403-427

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: Residential Patterns in Segregated Arlington VA.pdf

Subject of Research: THE INFLUENCE OF GEOGRAPHY ON THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RESIDENTS OF ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DURING SEGREGATION

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA

Media: THE INFLUENCE OF GEOGRAPHY ON THE LIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN.pdf

Subject of Research: Housing Segregation: Nowhere to Live
Story: Intro:
In 2016, Chris Fullman closed on his house in Richmond’s Lakeside. After signing the papers, his closing attorney handed over a copy of the covenants and one of the items caught him by surprise.

Fullman told Virginia Public Radio, “the second item on the list was basically, if you’re not white, you can’t live, rent, or do anything on this land unless you work for the property owner.”
Source: https://historyfortomorrow.org/story/you-cant-own-property-and-you-cant-live-here/

Item sets: Black Mobility Archive: Arlington, VA