American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale and Objectives
  3. History of De Jure Segregation in Chicago and Beyond
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Endnotes
  7. Bibliography for Teachers
  8. Reading List for Students
  9. Materials for Classroom Use
  10. Standards

A City Divided: Housing Segregation in Chicago and Beyond

Lea Stenson

Published September 2019

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Endnotes

  1. Kenneth B. Clark, Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 63
  2. Kenneth B. Clark, Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 11
  3. Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: the History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (New York : Knopf, 2004), 318
  4. Elaine Woo. “Kenneth Clark 90; His Studies Influenced Ban on Segregation.” The Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2005.
  5. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Opinion; May 17, 1954; Records of the Supreme Court of the United States; Record Group 267; National Archives.
  6. Damon Freeman, “Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Power.” Patterns of Prejudice, 42:4-5 (2008): 413-437, DOI: 10.1080/00313220802377362
  7. Richard Rothstein. “Truth As Well As Reconciliation.” Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog. December 12, 2013. https://www.epi.org/blog/truth-reconciliation/.
  8. Richard Rothstein. “What Have We - De Facto Racial Isolation or De Jure Segregation.” Human Rights Magazine 40, no. 3 (2014)
  9. Richard Rothstein. “Truth As Well As Reconciliation.” Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog. December 12, 2013. https://www.epi.org/blog/truth-reconciliation/.
  10. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  11. Richard Rothstein. “Truth As Well As Reconciliation.” Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog. December 12, 2013. https://www.epi.org/blog/truth-reconciliation/.
  12. Wendy Jacobson. “Textbooks Promote Myth of De Facto Segregation.” Zinn Education Project (blog post) January 5, 2016. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/textbooks-housing-segregation/
  13. Amy Tikkanen. “Great Migration” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/event/
  14. Hana Layson and Kenneth Warren. “Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950” Newberry Library Digital Collections. https://dcc.newberry.org/collections/chicago-and-the-great-migration
  15. ibid.
  16. Eve L. Ewing. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 61
  17. Robert Loerzel. “Blood in the Streets,” Chicago Magazine, July 23, 2019. http://www.chicagomag.
  18. Gilmore, Gerry J. "African-Americans Continue Tradition of Distinguished Service," United States Army. February 2, 2007, https://www.army.mil/article/1681/african_americans_continue_tradition_of_
  19. Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, “The Red Summer of 1919, Explained“ Teen Vogue, April 8, 2019, https://
  20. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  21. Vinson, Fred Moore, and Supreme Court Of The United States. U.S. Reports: Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1. 1947. Periodical. https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep334001/.
  22. Sanford, Edward Terry, and Supreme Court Of The United States. U.S. Reports: Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U.S. 323. 1925. Periodical. https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep271323/.
  23. Federal Housing Administration. Underwriting Manual (1936) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=
  24. “Understanding Fair Housing,” U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Clearinghouse Publication 42, February 1973. (PDF) https://www2.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/cr11042.pdf
  25. Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
  26. Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. (New York:St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
  27. Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. (New York:St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
  28. Vinson, Fred Moore, and Supreme Court Of The United States. U.S. Reports: Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1. 1947. Periodical. https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep334001/.
  29. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  30. Richard Rothstein. “Truth As Well As Reconciliation.” Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog. December 12, 2013. https://www.epi.org/blog/truth-reconciliation/.
  31. Federal Housing Administration. Underwriting Manual (1936) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=
  32. William B. Gwinner and Anthony Sanders. “The Sub Prime Crisis: Implications for Emerging Markets.” The World Bank. 2008. (PDF) http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/84947
  33. Jacob W. Faber (2013) Racial Dynamics of Subprime Mortgage Lending at the Peak, Housing Policy Debate, 23:2, 328-349, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.771788
  34. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  35. National Association of Real Estate Boards. Code of Ethics. (1924) https://www.nar.realtor/ about-nar/history/1924-code-of-ethics
  36. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  37. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  38. Rebecca Burns. “The Infamous Practice of Contract Selling is Back in Chicago,” Chicago Reader, March 01, 2017 https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/contract-selling-redlining-housing-
  39. Beryl Satter. Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. (New York: Picador, 2009), 4
  40. Beryl Satter. Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America. (New York: Picador, 2009), 5
  41. Steven Essig. “Race Riots” (2005) Encyclopedia of Chicago. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
  42. Charles Abrams. Forbidden Neighbors. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955), 103-119
  43. ibid.
  44. Ben Austen. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. (New York: Harper, 2018), 38.
  45. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  46. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  47. Harvey M. Choldin. “Chicago Housing Authority” (2005) Encyclopedia of Chicago. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/253.html
  48. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated
  49. Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government
  50. Ben Austen. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. (New York: Harper, 2018)
  51. “Robert Taylor Homes, “ WTTW Time Machine. https://interactive.wttw.com/timemachine/dan-
  52. Hunt, D. Bradford. "What Went Wrong with Public Housing in Chicago? A History of the Robert Taylor Homes." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) 94, no. 1 (2001): 96-123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40193536.
  53. Eve L. Ewing. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 79
  54. ibid.
  55. ibid.
  56. ibid.
  57. Alan B. Anderson and George W. Pickering. Confronting the Color Line: The Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1986)
  58. Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
  59. Natalie Y. Moore. The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016)
  60. Michael W. Homel, “Willis Wagons” Encyclopedia of Chicago. (2005) http://www.encyclopedia.
  61. Mark Walsh. “Documentary Recalls a 1963 Boycott of Segregated Chicago Public Schools,” Education Week Blog: Education and the Media. October 25, 2017, https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek
  62. Eve L. Ewing. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 81
  63. Jeff Nichols. “The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders’ 1963 arrest,” Chicago Reader, March 1, 2016, https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bernie-sanders-1963-arrest-full-
  64. "224,770 or 47 Pct. of all Pupils, Miss Classes". Chicago Tribune. October 23, 1963.
  65. Matthew D. Delmont. Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation. Berkely, CA: University of California Press, 2016.
  66. Eve L. Ewing. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 83
  67. CPS Stats and Facts: 2018-19 School Year. https://cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Pages/Stats_
  68. Daniel Hautzinger. “Martin Luther King and Fair Housing in Chicago, “ WTTW Playlist, April 11, 2018, https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2018/04/11/martin-luther-king-and-fair-housing-chicago
  69. Daniel Hautzinger. “Martin Luther King and Fair Housing in Chicago, “ WTTW Playlist, April 11, 2018, https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2018/04/11/martin-luther-king-and-fair-housing-chicago
  70. Olivia B. Waxman. “The Surprising Story Behind This Shocking Photo Of Martin Luther King Jr. Under Attack,” Time, January 12, 2018, https://time.com/5096937/martin-luther-king-jr-picture-chicago/
  71. Daniel Hautzinger. “Martin Luther King and Fair Housing in Chicago, “ WTTW Playlist, April 11, 2018, https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2018/04/11/martin-luther-king-and-fair-housing-chicago
  72. Daniel Hautzinger. “Martin Luther King and Fair Housing in Chicago, “ WTTW Playlist, April 11, 2018, https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2018/04/11/martin-luther-king-and-fair-housing-chicago
  73. ibid.
  74. Dettling, Lisa J., Joanne W. Hsu, Lindsay Jacobs, Kevin B. Moore, and Jeffrey P. Thompson (2017). "Recent Trends in Wealth-Holding by Race and Ethnicity," FEDS Notes. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, September 27, 2017, https://doi.org/10.17016/2380-7172.2083.

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