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Historian Lisa Burton traces New Rochelle's Black history and warns about redlining and displacement
Summary
Lisa Burton delivered a historical presentation at New Rochelle's Feb. 5, 2026 Black History Month event, citing 1698 census entries, the 1930s codification of redlining, and highway construction that she said removed '300 homes' from predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Lisa Burton, a member of the African American Advisory Committee, gave a wide-ranging historical presentation at New Rochelle's Black History Month celebration on Feb. 5, 2026, that linked early Black settlement to twentieth-century housing discrimination and urban-renewal displacement.
Burton opened with a quotation from Zora Neale Hurston and traced local history from a 1698 census listing enslaved people through the 20th century. She described civic formations such as the Booker T. Washington Club and a 1905 cooperative…
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