When Caleb Roberts moved from Milwaukee to Texas, he knew the story of Black people in Dallas being pushed out for generations.
In Milwaukee, he helped to stop a $1 billion highway project that threatened to gentrify his neighborhood after he had already seen it happen across the country.
During the 20th century, across Dallas, communities founded by formerly enslaved people were carved through by highways, and asphalt plants and railyards were planted around them like walls. It hollowed out the neighborhoods and made it harder for low-income people to thrive. But for working and middle class families, it directed them to the suburbs…