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This article is a date listing important or significant events that happened (or will happen) on events for the year 1954
Events
- Randolph Louis White (1896-1991) founded the Charlottesville-Albemarle Tribune, a newspaper serving Charlottesville's African American community.
- April 15 – Charlottesville voters approved establishment of a Redevelopment and Housing Authority “by a narrow margin of 36 votes in a climax to five years of effort to get a slum clearance and low-rent housing program organized.” The total vote of 2,174 was heavier than usual for a special election in which only one issue was involved. [1]
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- ↑ Web. Housing Body for City Voted by Slim Margin, staff, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, April 16, 1954, retrieved January 13, 2020. Print. April 16, 1954 page one.