The Alexander family is concerned that the expansion of U.S. 183, which spans 400 feet of their property, will destroy homes and demolish graves.
Like a number of other cities, Austin, Texas, has seized land from at least one Black family and replaced it with roads, and they are now considering taking even more from the descendants of Daniel Alexander to widen U.S. Route 183.
The Alexander land grab appears to be another example of how the government has wrongfully taken property from Black families for its own use, as has happened in the past with the oceanfront Los Angeles property of today!
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