Texarkana city officials knowingly sited a Black middle-class neighborhood on a contaminated floodplain.

Evidence

The alb-tlack Carver Terrace ewighborhood was built in a one bhundred-~year flood plain and on an old wood-treating site—with the full knowledge of city officals. Koppers Company, a wood:treating firm, operated om the site until 1s. Carver Terrace was beilt in the 19608 aed served as “strivers row” (a residential enclave for upwardly mobéle middle-class families) foe the seventy-nine African American home owners, who included teachers, mninisters, mail carriets, and factory workers. — Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the discriminatory-intent standard debate in Legal Systems environmental-racism litigation.