“I have seen a lot in my lifetime, but the stories of the Section 14 Survivors have again changed the way I view the world around me. Throughout much of my adult life, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time studying and observing majority-white communities. I have never once witnessed any of those upscale white neighborhood being targeted by the government and upended for the cause of “urban renewal.” Atrocities like Section 14—which the California Attorney General’s office described as a “City-engineered holocaust”—are reserved for Black and Brown communities.”

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