An Abbreviated Time Line of Events Described in Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto
TIME |
Events in |
Other Events |
1919 |
Famous city wide race riot starts at a beach near |
|
1939-1945 |
|
WWII, Second Great Black Migration North. |
1943 |
|
Race riots between Blacks and Whites in |
1945-1955 |
|
The Great Wave of Suburbanization in the |
1946 |
Antiblack riot in Airport Homes |
|
1947 |
Antiblack riot in Fernwood Park |
|
1947 |
Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act gives South Loop Businesses Eminent Domain powers and funding for 'urban renewal' The Pettibone- Mumford legislation puts the Chicago Land Clearance Commission in charge of the project |
|
1948 |
|
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down racially restrictive covenants (Shelley v. Kramer) |
1949 |
Carey Amendment, which would have guaranteed blacks some access to 'urban renewal' projects, is defeated Antiblack riot in Park Manor Antiblack riot in Englewood Park |
|
1951 |
Over the opposition of the CHA, the City Council approves Duffy- Lancaster proposal to build public housing only in already overpopulated black neighborhoods. Leads to the construction of the enormous Robert Taylor Homes, and Stateway Gardens Homes. |
|
1951 |
Antiblack riots in Cicero, Englewood. |
|
1952 |
Ground broken on Lake Meadows homes, product of South Loop 'urban renewal' |
|
1953 |
Urban Community Conservation Act, backed by the University of Chicago, is passed. This act extends eminent domain rights to neighborhoods that are merely threatened with economic decline. |
|
1954 |
Antiblack riot in Trumbull Park |
In Brown vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down explicit state sponsored school segregation. |
1954 |
Elizabeth Wood, the liberal leader of the CHA, is fired. |
|
1955 |
Richard J. Daley (the first) becomes mayor of Chicago, appoints a new segregationist leader to lead the CHA. |
|
1957 |
Antiblack riot in Calumet Park |
|
1958 |
City Council approves Hyde Park urban renewal plan |
|
1966 |
Martin Luther King and Mayor Richard J. Daley have a 'housing summit', in which much is promised but nothing is ever delivered |
|
1968 |
|
Federal Fair Housing Act |
1968 |
|
Martin Luther King assassinated, riots follow in black ghettos of Chicago and across the nation. |
1969 |
|
In Gatreaux vs. CHA, a federal judge orders Chicago to build public housing outside the black ghetto. Chicago declines to build any further public housing. |
c1998 |
Federal Housing Authority seizes legal control of the CHA, and begins demolishing the largest housing projects. |
|