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"Chicago has seen some progress. "He stood in the window, pulled out his gun. The double-digit weekend death tolls and shooting sprees are a constant reminder of the need to keep the city's violence and its survivors in plain sight. By then, the majority of workers in Chicago's plants were black, but they succeeded in creating an interracial organizing committee. "At her uncle's urging, she and the other children hid behind a piano in his South Side home as a white mob drew closer. The furthest I'd ever been was to 35th St on the crowded Red Line train, to go to a Sox game. As soon as he graduated from high school, his family moved to the suburbs. The 1920s were the height of the Black Chicago-people literary creation from 1925 to 1950 was also prolific, and the city's From 2008 to the present, the West Side Historical Society under the guidance of Rickie P. Brown Sr. began to document the rich history of the Chicago's black population developed a class structure, composed of a large number of domestic workers and other manual labourers, along with a small, but growing, contingent of middle-and-upper-class business and professional elites. And we never see racial integration in a sustained way on the South Side of Chicago. "The Supreme Court will strike down, for instance, restrictive covenants in 1948. They had been chiefly sharecroppers and laborers, although some were landowners pushed out by the boll weevil disaster. I was born in Chicago and spent the first few years in Albany Park, on the northwest side of the city. But desegregation remained a controversial issue in Chicago, and plans to achieve integration contributed to white migration from the city. "Now, they're going to punish you with tickets. In 1963, as civil rights activists continued to press for further action, President John F. Kennedy sent a new civil rights bill to Congress. As I write this, there have been more than 2,000 victims of gun violence so far this year, including 385 who died. Following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans flowed from the Deep South into Chicago, raising the population from approximately 4,000 in 1870 to 15,000 in 1890. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 and another in 1960 weakened but did not end racial segregation and voting rights violations. But the study, titled "The End of the Segregated Century," also found that Chicago remains the most racially segregated city in the country. "Chicago was a focal point of the great migration and the racial violence that came in its wake.
Fast forward to 2017, when I went back to Chicago with my fellow producers, Maggie, Omar and Michael, and very little has changed.Some of the most obvious wear and tear of these neighbourhoods has been on Chicago's public schools.

It wasn't until college that I ventured even further south on the Red Line to visit a friend off the Ashland/63rd stop and finally understood how divided Chi-town really was.That was in 2000. When the Chicago Public Schools finally did undertake a court-ordered desegregation plan in the early 1980s, there were relatively few … The story of segregation in Chicago. Facing an end to both public school segregation laws and laws banning interracial marriage, Southern policymakers grow concerned about the possibility of interracial dating in public high schools. "Over time, racially restrictive covenants gave way to messaging from homeowners' associations discouraging members from selling to black families – all to keep certain Chicago neighborhoods white and to concentrate the African American population in the city's "black belt," a string of neighborhoods on the South Side.