Emily Lieb

Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighbourhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s, Baltimore's Rosemont neighbourhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle-class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built—but it didn't matter:...