The South Shore Country Club and the Proposed Demolition:             A Turning Point That Sparked the Voice of the People
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  • Background
    • The Chicago Black Belt >
      • Restricted Covenants
    • Managed Integration
  • The End of an Era
    • Movers and Shakers
  • The Proposed Demolition
    • Tactics of the Coalition >
      • Resolution
      • Employment
    • The Affect on the Neighborhood
    • Cultural and Recreational Activities >
      • Jazz Come Home
  • Conclusion
    • Present Day
  • References
     Due to the discriminatory conditions in the South, millions of blacks migrated to the North during the Great Migration, seeking a better living.  Although the North promised them employment, it was only able to provide them with limited shelter.  Therefore, after arriving to Chicago, the majority of black migrants were forced to live in the Chicago Black Belt.  As the black migrants moved into Washington Park, an area near the Chicago Black Belt, Irish Catholics, Germans, Swedes, and Jews followed the white Protestants to South Shore.


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Living conditions of blacks in the Chicago Black Belt
University of Chicago Joseph Regenstein Library: Mildred Mead Collection
"In our homes, in our churches,
wherever two or three are gathered,
there is a discussion of what is best to do.
Must we remain in the South
or go elsewhere? Where can we go
to feel the security which other people feel?
Is it best to go in great numbers or only in several families?
These and many other things are discussed over and over."
                                
- A Colored Woman in Alabama, 1902
(The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson)


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Living conditions of blacks in the Chicago Black Belt
University of Chicago Joseph Regenstein Library: Mildred Mead Collection

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Chicago Defender; August 7, 1943
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Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. Hirsch

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Chicago Defender; August 31, 1946
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Chicago Defender; August 31. 1946
Restricted Covenants
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