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Broken Promises: Redlining, Segregation, and Urban Renewal in Wheeling with Brian Kammer

February 02, 2027
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Broken Promises: Redlining, Segregation, and Urban Renewal in Wheeling with Brian Kammer

"Broken Promises: Redlining, Segregation, and Urban Renewal in Wheeling" -- Brian Kammer explores how racial segregation, systematic under-development, and 'urban renewal' impacted Wheeling's multi-racial and Black neighborhoods and led to the city's decline.

Speaker Bio: Brian Kammer is a capital defense attorney located in Atlanta, Georgia. But he grew up in Wheeling in the 1970s and 80s. He attended Wheeling Country Day School and Linsly School before leaving the state to attend college. In the 1990s, he become an attorney defending death-sentenced prisoners in Georgia. That work necessarily involved investigating how class and racial inequality and injustice impacted his clients' lives and their communities. Brian never lost touch with his own hometown and retained a passionate interest in its history. In recent years he has documented the history of segregation and racial disenfranchisement in Wheeling, focusing on the impact of redlining and urban renewal on its multi-racial and Black neighborhoods.


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