James Robert Saunders is a professor of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. A native of Charlottesville, Renae Nadine Shackelford is a lecturer in the Department of English at Purdue University.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments    List of Illustrations    Introduction    1. The Prime of Vinegar Hill     2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Urban Rrenewal     3. Historical Backgrounds     4. Relocation     5. The Impacts of Urban Renewal     Conclusion     Appendices     Notes     Bibliography     Index

“powerful oral history...tells a story far more worthy of the limelight.... This is a story that goes far toward explaining the blighted conditions and hopes in our nation’s so-called inner cities.”—Michigan Today; “former residents tell it like it is regarding the black neighborhood’s history”—Reference & Research Book News.