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History's Peter Shulman clarifies claims of discriminatory infrastructure in NYC neighborhoods

MEDIA | December 6, 2021
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

Robert Moses and the saga of the racist parkway bridges

The Washington Post: Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, weighed in on Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker about the truthfulness of historic reports of bridge underpasses purposely built too low so buses carrying people of color couldn’t pass under to access predominantly white sections of New York City.