Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side. Historical Studies of Urban America

• Published in: University of Chicago Press
• Main Author: Seligman, Amanda I
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: University of Chicago Press 01.05.2005
• Subjects: African Americans; Housing; Illinois; Migration; Neighborhoods; Public Policy; Public Schools; State Universities; United States History; Urban Areas; Urban Renewal; Whites; Illinois

In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white fl...