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Thelma Glover lost her home to urban renewal. Portland leaders want to atone for the past. This winter, they'll dole out down payments. Glover won't get one. For her, it's too late.

Thelma Glover came to Portland from the South in 1941, expecting a better, safer community. Instead, Glover found what African Americans in Chicago and Detroit and San Francisco did: Black communities anywhere were expendable. Government officials across the country penned African Americans into less-desirable areas. Later, when white people wanted the land, planners declared the communities blighted and forced African Americans out. The bulldozers came for Glover and 200 other families – mostly black – in 1970 when Emanuel Hospital officials decided they needed their properties. Glover found a place in East Portland, eight miles and two interstates from her church, her bank and her friends. She has given it 45 years, but the pink-and-white house at the end of a cul-de-sac has never felt like home.

Most cities haven’t tried to make amends for the ways they systematically pushed black people out of neighborhoods. But last year, Portland leaders decided to try. They announced a multi-million dollar program aimed at bringing back people pushed or priced out of close-in neighborhoods. This winter, they’ll begin doling out down payments. Glover won’t get one. For her, it’s too late.

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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/01/african_american_portland_eman.html