Racism and Segregation in Buffalo: A Reading List

June 2, 2022 • By Cynthia Van Ness

The targeted mass shooting in Tops supermarket on May 14, 2022, allegedly by a white supremacist, exposed the reality of a predominantly Black neighborhood made vulnerable by decades of disinvestment, deindustrialization, redlining, racism, and segregation. This bibliography features scholarship on the history of Buffalo’s East side.

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