1 / 5: The New York Public Library Segregation and the Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration’s efforts to build housing for people displaced during the Great Depression focused on homes for white families in white communities. Only a small portion of houses was built for Bl...
We find that the magnitude of white flight for neighborhoods that have tipped in 2000 has fallen to between 23 and 36 percent of the level seen in 1970. There was no discontinuity in white flight after accounting for migration trends during the Great Depression. Finally, we show that in-...
The history of redlining began during theGreat Depression. Economic hardship struck the United States in the late 1920s and early 1930s. By 1933, the unemployment rate was higher than 25%, incomes had plummeted by more than half, and over a million Americans were facing foreclosure on their...
Between 1916-1970, more than six million black Americans from the south migrated to the North, Midwest, and West during what was calledThe Great Migration. Black people sought better economic opportunities and safety from racial violence.
... the bay was a depression in the land which happened to be there when the sea arrived, and into which the sea consequently flowed; the successive occurrence of rocks, shingle, and sand was due to the actions of the waves themselves; the segregation of sea-weeds, shells, pebbles, and...
CHAPTER5TheSegregationEra,1910-1948Thematerial expectationsof thefoundersof theUnionofSouthAfricawerefulfilled.Between1910and1948,theeconomyweatheredtheGreat Depression,and thenational incomeof thecountry increased more than three timesinrealterms.1Thegold-mining industry madeamajor contributionto the na-tional...
Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US During and after World War II, challenges to segregation became more common and more successful. Three major factors accounted for this: -- The Great Migration The great migration was the movement of blacks from the Southern states to ...
Massey and Denton’s famous examination of racial segregation in major US cities during the 1980s was also extremely influential for later scholarship on immigration and the social geography of urban areas. Particularly since the 1980s, research in geography has used census data to map and ...
We first infer a user’s home latitude and longitude using the latitude and longitude coordinates of their pings during local night-time (and early-morning) hours, based on best practices established by SafeGraph60. We first remove users with fewer than 500 pings to ensure that we have enough...
I began today driving for two hours to find a meeting for which I had been given the wrong address, and, like the fool that I have always been, didn’t bring along the phone number of anyone who could help me. It is during ordeals like this that I begin to reflect on what a fail...