Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods
On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, creating the Interstate Highway System—the largest public works project in American history. While celebrated as an engineering triumph, the $25 billion program (equivalent to over $300 billion today) systematically …
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. Congress
Bureau of Public Roads
General Motors
American Petroleum Institute
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