Library
View .PDF
The Historical Overview of Blacks in the Fruit Belt: The Continuing Struggle to Build a Vibrant Community
| Date: | Jul 26, 2009 |
| Author(s): | Center for Urban Studies, UB, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. |
| Topic(s): | Data / Demographics / History: General, Housing / Neighborhoods: General |
| Type: | Report |
| Share: |
Project Name: The Fruit belt Redevelopment Project
This report provides and overview of the history of blacks in Buffalo’s Fruit Belt and the classic tale of how urban policies have destabilized the African American community and robbed low to moderate‐income blacks of the wealth producing power of home-ownership.
This report at others were written and supported by the UB Center for Urban Studies.
The goal of the UB Center for Urban Studies research is to produce a knowledge base to guide the building of just and democratic metros that enable residents to realize their full human potential and acquire the larger freedoms. Founded in 1987 by Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., the UB Center for Urban Studies is a research, neighborhood planning and community development institute, which focuses on the transformation of vulnerable, underdeveloped and distressed neighborhoods into communities of opportunity.
You can find this and more of their research on the Center for Urban Studies Research page.