The $20 million project, which took about two years to complete, included the construction of two roundabouts, one at Myrtle Ridge Drive and one at Burning Ridge Road.
South Carolina wants to build a road through a historic Black neighborhood over residents’ objections. NYU Law’s Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic is teaming up with community members to put the brakes on the project.
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Black Residents in a South Carolina town are renewing their push to throw up a roadblock to the state’s plans to literally pave over their neighborhood. Officials at the federal and state levels are still moving forward with the planned Conway Perimeter Road, a four-lane throughfare that as currently imagined would demolish at least six homes and bisect the small, majority Black town of Sandridge. That’s despite the South Carolina NAACP filing a complaint with the Federal Highway Administration