This presentation explores the history of Buffalo, New York’s Humboldt Parkway, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of a larger park system to provide green space and a healthy living environment. The parkway became a thriving area for Black American families, but in the mid-20th century, it was destroyed due to racist housing policies, White Flight, suburbanization, and the construction of the Kensington Expressway. The presentation highlights how this urban development amounted to environmental racism, its impact on the Black community, and current efforts to address and repair the damage caused by these past injustices.

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