Tributaries

Citizens to Preserve Overton Park


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This March marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on the fate of Overton Park, which the Tennessee Department of Transportation planned to pave for a section of I-40.  We talk to Charlie Newman, one of the lawyers who represented the Citizens to Preserve Overton Park in the Supreme Court about the case and the decades-long battle that followed.  Music by Boon, Drop Ceiling, and Sully Allen. Image courtesy of Thomas R Machnitzki.
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