I remember thinking that this could not possibly be the story. The federal government was paying to run a highway through a poor, disadvantaged, and almost exclusively black neighborhood? The plan would kick these families out of their homes, destroying whatever wealth they had built, tearing apart a tight-knit community? The project was being pushed by a group of local insiders calling themselves the Committee of One Hundred, a name that would only work in a large and smoke-filled room?
