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Rubinowitz, Leonard S.; Rosenbaum, James E. – 2000
In 1976, thousands of low-income African Americans, mostly women and children, began to move out of the public housing developments of Chicago, Illinois, to the mostly white middle class suburbs. These families were part of the Gautreaux program, one of the largest court-ordered desegregation efforts in the United States. This book tells the story…
Descriptors: Blacks, Housing, Human Services, Low Income Groups
Download full textBerger, Joseph B.; Smith, Suzanne M.; Coelen, Stephen P. – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
The inequities of residential segregation and their impact on educational opportunity are a national problem, but greater metropolitan Boston has a particularly problematic history in terms of the extent to which racial segregation has deeply divided the city into separate and unequal systems of opportunity. Despite decades of policy efforts to…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Residential Patterns
