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The task force will research the decisions that led to the placement of the university in the Shoe Lane neighborhood, which was, at the time, home to a small, thriving Black community.
In 1961, an all-white Newport News City Council voted to dismantle the Shoe Lane neighborhood to make way for what became Christopher Newport University.