Natalie Merrill, class of 2024, presents a poster outlining her senior research paper, “The New Deal, Residential Segregation, & a Culture of Psychological & Physical Violence in Buffalo, NY” at the Arts & Sciences Expo. Her research made use of local newspapers, government documents, and relevant scholarship to illustrate the development of residential policies that have negatively impacted black communities and neighborhoods. She argues that the discrimination behind violent events such as the recent mass shooting at the Tops Supermarket in East Buffalo are not random but part of a larger pattern stretching back to the New Deal.
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