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he had an even bigger vision for buffalo, a system of multiple city parks connected by tree-lined parkways. this by integrating the parks into the city. and one of those early parkways was called humbolt parkway. and the first half of the 20th century, a black middle class neighborhood called hamlin park began to emerge around it. it was lovely. and so of course, as in black neighborhoods and cities across the country, in the 1950s and the 1960s, city planners decided to build a giant highway right through the middle of it. first, they cut down all of those grand trees on humbolt parkway. then they dug out the whole parkway to struct an expressway to better connect mostly white suburban drivers to downtown buffalo. that new expressway cut off the black community in buffalo and they also poured more pollution into that black neighborhood which over the decades has had serious health implications for that community and cut off black

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