By Arnold R. Hirsch
"In this glorious, elaborate, and meticulously researched examine, Hirsch exposes the social engineering of the post-war ghetto."—Roma Barnes, Journal of yankee Studies
"According to Arnold Hirsch, Chicago's postwar housing tasks have been a immense workout in ethical deception. . . . [An] first-class examine of public coverage long gone astray."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
"An informative and provocative account of serious features of the method in [Chicago]. . . . a great and worthy book."—Zane Miller, Reviews in American History
"A invaluable and demanding book."—Allan Spear, Journal of yank History
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55 One landlord, determined to evict his tenants to allow conversion of his building into kitchenettes, set fire to the structure after the tenants refused to vacate. The four children of James Hickman were killed in the blaze. Hickman later fatally shot the landlord in reven~e and was eventually sentenced to two years probation for his act. Survivors suffered in other ways as well. ,,57 The need to escape such conditions was clear. The only question was: Where could one go? As long as the housing shortage existed for both blacks and whites, the desire to escape deplorable living conditions could not be satisfied.
Weaver, a member of the Mayor's Committee on Race Relations and later the first secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, emphasized the malleability of the future in The Negro Ghetto, the most significant contemporary survey of the problem. ,,19 Weaver's sense of uncertainty and opportunity were genuine. The 1960s fires, which illuminated the past as well as the present (and thus facilitated the use of hindsight), should not be permitted to obscure the fact that paths other than the one eventually taken were available.
4% during that decade. 51 persons per room) also declined; where 5% of Chicago's whites lived in overcrowded homes in 1940, 4% did so in 1950. The process of "undoubling" the white population had begun. 47 The same could not be said for Chicago'S blacks. 3%. Not unexpectedly, the percentage of nonwhites living in overcrowded accommodations rose from 19% in 1940 to 24% in 1950. 48 In absolute numbers, overcrowded nonwhite households increased by 14,942, whereas overcrowded white households decreased by 1,241.
