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| Title: | Finding Aid for the Sternberg Overton Park Expressway Collection |
| Authors: | Lane, Mary Catherine, Class of 2007 |
| Keywords: | Overton Park
Sternberg, Irma O., 1915-2007
Citizens to Preserve Overton Park
CPOP
Expressways
Environment |
| Date Issued: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College Archives and Special Collections |
| Abstract: | The materials listed in this finding aid were collected by Irma O. Sternberg during her work to keep a six-lane expressway from being built through Overton Park in Memphis, Tennessee. She and other concerned citizens formed CPOP, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park. The fought the proposed segment of I-40 through litigation and public hearings. The U. S. Supreme Court eventually ruled in favor of CPOP and the expressway was never finished. (Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe, 401 U.S. 402, 1971) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10267/11339 |
| Appears in Collections: | Irma O. Sternberg Overton Park Expressway Collection
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