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Originally Posted by JHikka
Weird, Halifax destroyed their local black community, too. Must be a coincidence.  |
This is such a distortion. Africville had
400 people at its peak. Halifax today has 15,000 black residents.
Africville was replaced by public housing projects in the 1960's, like Mulgrave Park, which were closer into town and had much better amenities than what they replaced. They had the usual urban renewal and public housing problems of course. The most populated slum clearance areas in 1950's Halifax had mostly white or mixed populations (Cogswell and Scotia Square area). Urban renewal was trendy back then and much of the city was demolished.
Hogan's Alley was demolished for the Georgia Viaduct. I don't know what the motivations of the city back then truly were but it's not exactly true to say that it was the black area that got torn down. It had a diverse population, containing a black community within it, and Chinatown ended up being saved from demolition for highway development. So it is probably a more nuanced history than a lot of people let on.
People really like their history to be black and white!
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