Roanoke Equity Board Plans Public Outreach for Urban Renewal Apology

The Story of Urban Renewal Revisited in Lecture - Hudson Valley Press

By Journalist Dr. Ms. Jones NEWBURGH – On Thursday, July 17th the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & The Highlands held their monthly Cocktail & Collections Series. It was held at The Newburgh Heritage Center. “The Historical Society does a Third Thursday lecture series that we call Cocktails & Collections. There’s the cocktails [and] something about collections. Our goal has been for two years to tease [people] out on a weekday night, so that…

Roanoke Equity Board Plans Public Outreach for Urban Renewal Apology

Virginia Y. Lee at the Gainsboro Library, in an undated image. In the 1940s, Roanoke officials ordered Lee, the Gainsboro librarian, to remove her collection of Black history and literature from the library. COURTESY OF THE VIRGINIA ROOM AT ROANOKE PUBLIC LIBRARIES A portrait of longtime librarian Virginia Y. Lee watched on as members of Roanoke’s equity board gathered this month in the room dedicated to her name.It was a fitting setting for the…