3-A Expressway - Benefits to Blacks

Collection documents the activities of the Movement Against Destruction (MAD) coaltion of community groups between 1968 and 1988 as they organized against the proposed construction of expressway highways through neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland. Materials are mainly textual and include publications, meeting minutes, correspondence, legal briefs, newspaper clippings, press releases, newsletters, brochures, research files, records documenting public hearings and testimonies, reports. Also present are artifacts including "Stop the Road" t-shirts. Several subjects represented in this collection include transportation, city planning, community organizing, community activism, housing, urban renewal, and historic preservation.