It borders the neighborhoods of Roundhill on the north and Williamson Road on the north and east, Gainsboro and Harrison on the south, and Melrose-Rugby on the west.
The Roanoke city landfill was placed in the middle of this black neighborhood.
The trash dump became a scene of confrontation between the white city government and the black residents.
R. R. Wilkinson, then president of the city's NAACP, talked of organizing a 'baby carriage brigade' of young mothers with carriages to block the entrance to the dump and prevent trash trucks from entering."
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