Dallas’ penchant for developing through Black neighborhoods.

 The construction of the Love Field airport ate into the black community of Elm Thicket, and the Central Expressway divided Freedmantown in half, then tore through Deep Ellum and Bonton as it expanded south. It also destroyed Stringtown, which was a thin residential area linking Deep Ellum and Freedmantown.

“During the construction of the Expressway they actually paved over part of the cemetery where slaves and their descendants had been buried,” Lewis said. “The city just paved right over it. They dug through graves. They used headstones as road-fill.”

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