Postwar eminent domain displaced roughly a million people, two-thirds of them Black.

Evidence

What happened to the Bruces was quite common among black Americans. Research shows that between 1949 and 1973, almost one thousand cities used eminent domain to displace “one million people, two-thirds of them African American,” under the Federal Housing Act of 1949. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 349

Research shows that between 1949 and 1973, almost one thousand cities used eminent domain to displace “one million people, two-thirds of them African American,” under the Federal Housing Act of 1949. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 349

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the claim in Whiteness of Wealth / the saturation argument: these aren’t scattered incidents but federal-policy-driven displacement on a mass scale — the systemic mechanism underpinning Brown’s case.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 349