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Author | : Amanda I. Seligman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2005-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226746658 |
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 flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.
Author | : Irving Cutler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1439621004 |
For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago. It contained almost 40 percent of the city's entire Jewish population with over 70 synagogues and numerous active Jewish organizations and institutions, such as the Jewish People's Institute, the Hebrew Theological College, and Mount Sinai Hospital. Its residents included "King of Swing" Benny Goodman, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, journalists Irv Kupcinet and Meyer Levin, federal judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, civil rights attorney Elmer Gertz, Eli's Cheesecake founder Eli Shulman, and comedian Shelley Berman. Many of the selected images come from the author's extensive collection. This book will bring back memories for those who lived there and retell the story of Jewish life on the West Side for those who did not. No matter where the scattered Jews of Chicago live now, many can trace their roots to this "Jerusalem of Chicago."
Author | : Anthony Dzik |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0578027275 |
A geographical study of an urban village on Chicago's West Side in the 1960s. Book examines the social, commercial, and industrial geography of the neighborhood bounded by North Avenue, Pulaski Road, Chicago Avenue, and the Belt Line Railway (Kilpatrick Avenue).
Author | : Julia Sniderman Bachrach |
Publisher | : Garfield Park Conservatory alliance |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780979412509 |
A visual history traces the evolution of the Garfield Park Conservatory, which was originally designed as a poetic interpretation of the Midwest landscape in prehistoric times, and looks at its influence on the development of the park and boulevard system on Chicago's West Side.
Author | : Elizabeth Todd-Breland |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1469646595 |
In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in U.S. history. On one side, a union leader and veteran black woman educator drew upon organizing strategies from black and Latinx communities to demand increased school resources. On the other side, the mayor, backed by the Obama administration, argued that only corporate-style education reform could set the struggling school system aright. The stark differences in positions resonated nationally, challenging the long-standing alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Elizabeth Todd-Breland recovers the hidden history underlying this battle. She tells the story of black education reformers' community-based strategies to improve education beginning during the 1960s, as support for desegregation transformed into community control, experimental schooling models that pre-dated charter schools, and black teachers' challenges to a newly assertive teachers' union. This book reveals how these strategies collided with the burgeoning neoliberal educational apparatus during the late twentieth century, laying bare ruptures and enduring tensions between the politics of black achievement, urban inequality, and U.S. democracy.
Author | : Charles A. Rini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781478715627 |
Fragments of the West Side chronicles life growing up Italian in four distinct and very different neighborhoods in the Lincoln Park and near west side areas of Chicago. It covers a time-span from the early 1940's to the late 1960's and was, in my opinion, the perfect place and time to be a kid.
Author | : Felix Mendelsohn |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014388636 |
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Author | : William S. Bike |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2001-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780759683952 |
High crimes and motorcycles - Assistant District Attorney Ariella Salcedo finds herself interogating an individual apparently attempting to put reality itself on trial. Ariella and her investigator partner Josie Hart are led to decipher Michael Solomon's quest, until they are confronted with their own roles in life, now coming upon both the key recognition and reversal elements of an Aristotlean complex plot. The post-legitimate world leaders are seen to be in process of stridently leading civilization down the desolation trail of financial, social, and environmental cataclysm, so that the nature of the investigation begins to take a turn...turning right into obstruction of justice in a nasty inheritance battle - in the case of the New Fascist-Communist-Antichrist World Order vs. Kingdom Come.
Author | : Rus Bradburd |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613739338 |
Shawn Harrington returned to Marshall High School as an assistant coach years after appearing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary film Hoop Dreams. In January of 2014, Marshall's struggling team was about to improve after the addition of a charismatic but troubled player. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harrington's car as he drove his daughter to school. Using his body to shield her, Harrington was struck and paralyzed. The mistaken-identity shooting was followed by a series of events that had a devastating impact on Harrington and Marshall's basketball family. Over the next three years it became obvious that the dream of the game providing a better life had nearly dissolved. Author Rus Bradburd tells Shawn's story with empathy and care, exploring the intertwined tragedies of gun violence, health care failure, racial assumptions, struggling educational systems, corruption in athletics—and the hope that can survive them all.
Author | : Irving Cutler |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738560151 |
For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago. It contained almost 40 percent of the city's entire Jewish population with over 70 synagogues and numerous active Jewish organizations and institutions. This book will bring back memories for those who lived there and retell the story of Jewish life on the West Side for those who did not.