The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the
When the interstate highway program connected Americas cities,it also divided them,cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded freeway revolt, saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleanss French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt,a movement of creative opposition,commemoration,and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that la