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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/C.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Removing Highways to Heal Racial Wrongs' data-article-id='5672'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='14104'>For more than 50 years, Interstate 81 highway has cut through the Southside neighborhood of Syracuse, a city in northwestern New York State. </span> <span data-start-time='14104' data-end-time='23104'>Smoke from vehicles traveling on the elevated road would fall down to the area where most people are Black and poor.</span> <span data-start-time='23104' data-end-time='31396'>Now, New York State wants to replace that part of the elevated highway with a street-level road. </span> <span data-start-time='31396' data-end-time='36354'>The aim is to connect the city's urban areas again. </span> <span data-start-time='36354' data-end-time='41000'>And building could begin as soon as next year.</span> <span data-start-time='41000' data-end-time='48813'>The plan has raised hopes of better times in a city where one in three residents lives in poverty.</span> <span data-start-time='48813' data-end-time='57979'>Some say it could also make up for the damage done to Black residents during the building of Interstate 81 years ago. </span> <span data-start-time='57979' data-end-time='64167'>They were forced to move and have been living under the elevated highway ever since.</span> <span data-start-time='64167' data-end-time='68792'>David Rufus is a lifelong Southside resident. </span> <span data-start-time='68792' data-end-time='75271'>He works as an organizer for the rights group New York Civil Liberties Union. </span> <span data-start-time='75271' data-end-time='81021'>He said, "When they put that highway up, they destroyed this community. </span> <span data-start-time='81021' data-end-time='86333'>Now here's an opportunity to right that wrong by bringing it down.</span> <span data-start-time='86333' data-end-time='96104'>Syracuse was not the only U.S. city where highway-building in the 1950s and 1960s displaced Black residents.</span> <span data-start-time='96104' data-end-time='112063'>Historians are now saying that local officials saw the proposed interstate highway system as an easy way to tear down what they regarded as slum neighborhoods near downtown business areas.</span> <span data-start-time='112063' data-end-time='119021'>The U.S. federal government paid up to 90 percent of the cost of building the new highway. </span> <span data-start-time='119021' data-end-time='128875'>As residents had to move away, it was easier for politicians and business leaders to work on "urban renewal" projects.</span> <span data-start-time='128875' data-end-time='140063'>Joseph DiMento is a law professor at the University of California, Irvine and an expert in the policies of the highway-building. </span> <span data-start-time='140063' data-end-time='144604'>It was a mistake that many cities were making, he said. </span> <span data-start-time='144604' data-end-time='151604'>The reasons they were built were heavily for removal of Blacks from certain areas, he added.</span> <span data-start-time='151604' data-end-time='160646'>Road builders at the time were largely free to ignore environmental, historical, social or other concerns. </span> <span data-start-time='160646' data-end-time='167042'>That permitted them to pay attention only to the most direct way from one point to another.</span> <span data-start-time='167042' data-end-time='177500'>Often, that meant directing those highways through Black neighborhoods, where land was inexpensive and there was little political opposition.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/C.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17518 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/what_is_a_highway.wav'>What is a highway?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='A main road, especially one connecting major towns or cities'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/a_short_road_leading_from_a_public_road_to_a_house_or_garage.wav'><span>A short road leading from a public road to a house or garage</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/a_global_computer_network.wav'><span>A global computer network</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/a_main_road_especially_one_connecting_major_towns_or_cities.wav'><span>A main road, especially one connecting major towns or cities</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/a_system_of_paying_a_deposit_to_secure_an_item_for_later_purchase.wav'><span>A system of paying a deposit to secure an item for later purchase</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17519 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/where_is_syracuse.wav'>Where is Syracuse?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='New York'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/new_york.wav'><span>New York</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/pennsylvania.wav'><span>Pennsylvania</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/canada.wav'><span>Canada</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/california.wav'><span>California</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=17520 data-hint-location='167042' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/often_that_meant_directing_those_highways_through_black_neighborhoods_where_land_was__blank__and_there_was_little_political_opposition.wav'>Often, that meant directing those highways through Black neighborhoods, where land was <span class='blank'>inexpensive</span> and there was little political opposition.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='inexpensive'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/farmland.wav'><span>farmland</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/disputed.wav'><span>disputed</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/nicer.wav'><span>nicer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5135/inexpensive.wav'><span>inexpensive</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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