Handy Heights Project
This is a booklet about the redesign of the Handy Heights neighborhood in 1954. The project cleared 26 acres of land (and 84 structures) in West Florence and brought public housing, an elementary school, and an African American housing development to the area. This was one of the first urban renewal...
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Project Say Something: The Shoals Black History Collection
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| Online Access: | https://shoalsblackhistory.omeka.net/items/show/280 |
| Summary: | This is a booklet about the redesign of the Handy Heights neighborhood in 1954. The project cleared 26 acres of land (and 84 structures) in West Florence and brought public housing, an elementary school, and an African American housing development to the area. This was one of the first urban renewal redevelopments aimed at African Americans in the entire nation. |
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