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highway expansions, pipelines and more. dispossessing a new generation of black, brown and indigenous citizens. most of the wealth equity in this country and for most families is through land or property ownership. and some people who were not white have not had this mechanism to grow wealth. reporter: black families are disproportionately vulnerable by legal means including loopholes and partition sales but little is done to protect them. there s land organizations around for generations. all of these groups have tried in one way or another to get land back or at least to get some sort of reparations or
supremacists who ultimately seized the land through eminent domain in 1924 on the grounds that it would be used for a public park. for three decades, the lots sat vacant. i don t care if it happens to black entrepreneurs, white entrepreneurs. someone having their land taken from them is wrong. this was specifically based on race. and so that makes it even worse. reporter: according to one study from 2014, of 1 million people displaced by eminent domain between 1949 and 1973, 2/3 were african-american. it s been used to take over swaths of land held by communities of color across america, like vinegar hill in charlottesville, virginia. and in high profile cases like dodgers stadium in los angeles, it s still used today for highway expansions, pipelines and more, dispossessing a new generation of black, brown, and