Clarksdale
In 1933, the Public Works Administration’s Emergency Housing Corporation began construction of public housing projects in Louisville. That construction began with the Clarksdale project on the east side of downtown.
From the late-1930s through the 1940s, it (and its successor agencies) built six low-rise public housing projects: College Court (all white), LaSalle Place (all African-American), Clarksdale, Beecher Terrace, Parkway Place, and Sheppard Square, with Clarksdale and Beecher Terrace being built as slum clearance projects.
Jeff Street has long been associated with Clarksdale Housing and many of our friends and members have been residents.
Over the first few years of 2000, the city decided to gentrify the now-desirable downtown Louisville neighborhood and, although we worked with Clarksdale residents through CLOUT to try to ensure justice in the process, Clarksdale is now a memory, being replaced by Liberty Green.
From the late-1930s through the 1940s, it (and its successor agencies) built six low-rise public housing projects: College Court (all white), LaSalle Place (all African-American), Clarksdale, Beecher Terrace, Parkway Place, and Sheppard Square, with Clarksdale and Beecher Terrace being built as slum clearance projects.
Jeff Street has long been associated with Clarksdale Housing and many of our friends and members have been residents.
Over the first few years of 2000, the city decided to gentrify the now-desirable downtown Louisville neighborhood and, although we worked with Clarksdale residents through CLOUT to try to ensure justice in the process, Clarksdale is now a memory, being replaced by Liberty Green.
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