"This lively community began to wind down in the late 1950s and 1960s when, under the guise of "urban renewal," thousands of people and more than 80 businesses (many minority-owned) were displaced. Most of those businesses never reestablished."
This lead to the eventual destruction of the entire Bessemer community, the largest community in the City of Greensboro, where most of those business owners, black and white, resided. And like the destruction of the Warnersville commercial district during that same era, it was done to increase business in downtown Greensboro by giving residents fewer options. They no longer use bulldozers but it still goes on today through the transfer of taxes away from our neighborhoods to subsidize downtown and beginning on September 25th when the Greensboro Free Press appears on news stands all over Greensboro this city will see its past, present and future laid bare in a way it has never before experienced.
So if anything should happen to me between now and the 25th, you'll know why.
