Root Shock

Columbia University Professor Mindy Fullilove, in her book new book "Root Shock," says urban renewal leveled 2,500 neighborhoods in alomst 1,000 American cities between 1949 and 1973, displacing about a million people. Most of them were minorities. According to Dr. Fullilove, the unskilled manufacturing jobs that had brought people to the cities were disappearing at the same time with terrible consequences for individuals and communities. DUQ's Charlee Song interviewed the author while she was in the Hill District. Listen to the full-length story here.

This story originally aired on WDUQ on July 6, 2004.