Freeway Construction Destroying Black City Areas -- late 60's / early 70's

[jsmith]

Speaking in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden hailed the beginning of $3.3 billion in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday "to right historic wrongs" with efforts to finally reconnect city neighbourhoods riven by interstate highways that ploughed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American, and Hispanic communities decades ago. The US Transportation Department estimates that at least a million people and businesses in the US were displaced by decades of harmful urban renewal projects in the buildout of the federal highway system.
Many black neighbourhoods were destroyed by Highway Planners back in the day. Miami [[Overtown), Nashville, Baltimore & Norfolk [[the city's chitlin theatre & surrounding buildings getting bulldozed) went that way. Due to neglect & white council members, whole areas of Detroit fell into decline. the Bronx & areas of Brooklyn wasted away in similar fashion. The Chitlin Circuit in many cities was killed off in areas of a number of other US cities. Urban renewal also largely destroyed the black club scene in Memphis & Indianapolis.
The scene I'm most familiar with was the Miami situation. Overtown was decimated by the building of Freeways & the Metrorail system into the downtown area. Hotels, clubs & hundreds of houses were swept away. Some club premises remained standing but with their audiences moved out of the area, they soon went into decline. Many of the old established venues shut down & the live music scene went into decline for a number of years.
. .. Which other US city black entertainment scenes went the same way; LA, Houston, Oakland, Chicago, Philly, DC ???