Leaders Looking On

ID: 2967 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Texas Collection.
This file appears in: Urban Renewal
Leaders Looking On

Pictured at a project site, Hank Corwin, Roy McKnight, and Jim A. Clark presided over urban renewal developments. Corwin (left) worked as Executive Director for Waco’s Urban Renewal Agency. In the middle stands McKnight, a Baylor University Representative and Clark, President of the Baylor Waco Foundation, stands to his right.

This file appears in: Urban Renewal

By Allie Roberts
Urban renewal programs swept across the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Funded by the federal government, cities throughout the country sought to improve local architecture and expand residential areas by purchasing and decimating…