Inside Appalachia

Black Community In Charleston, Destroyed For Interstate, Not Forgotten


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Why was the Triangle neighborhood, once steeped in the richness of black music and culture, demolished in 1974 in Charleston, W.Va.? Why were some residents unaware that their neighborhood was being torn down until the bulldozers showed up? And why do some members of Charleston’s African American community today believe that this history could repeat itself in the city’s West Side neighborhood 50 years later, unless this history is reckoned with and remembered?
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Inside AppalachiaBy West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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