Articles related to "White Flight"

The move from the inner city to the sprawling suburbs of the 1950s reflected the goals of achieving the American Dream but left minorities outside of the equation.

The process of suburbanization resulted in the abandonment of many inner cities across the country which led to racial segregation and heighten class divisiveness.

The urban exodus of the American white-middle class exposed the underlying racism that spatially transformed American cities.

It's all about location. A ruling by the Supreme Court in Seattle declined to recognize race as a compelling state interest in integrating public schools.

Scholar Rich Benjamin seeks out and lives in several white American enclave communities in an effort to understand what they are about and why they are quickly growing.

This article review the book Against All Odds: The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations, by Brad Christerson, Korie Edwards, and Michael Emerson.

After WWI, black urbanization was often met with intense violence, leaving blacks isolated and segregated in the hopelessness of a ghetto existence.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared the Union would fight to end slavery, but its promises of full citizenship initially went unfulfilled.

Following the Brown v Board of Education case, the growing Civil Rights Movement found support among white Americans confronted by a contradiction to equality & justice.