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Where
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| The residential pattern of black housing evolved into distinctive types in the South and the North. Study these different spatial models of segregation. Blacks, as slaves, lived among their white owners. After the Civil War, freed blacks created distinctive residential areas away from their previous owners; yet, they lived close enough to the white wealthy classes because they still worked for whites as domestic and industrial workers. In the North, large concentrations of black in ghettos became typical and this pattern eventually spread south as well. "Old" southern cities like New Orleans have still retained some of the dispersed black housing, but "new" southern cities like Atlanta have very spatially segregated residential patterns. | The Delta, which covers Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, is one of the poorest regions in the United States. Median household income is $16,583; for the USA as a whole, $30,056. Unemployment rates are several times higher than in the nation. Five percent of the houses have no running water. About a third of the children live in poverty and 40 percent of the population has no high school diplomas. |
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Shelby, in the Delta of Mississippi (at the scale of 1:24,000), illustrates the segregated pattern of residential housing of blacks and whites in small southern towns today. What distinguishes the white parts of town from the black one in Shelby? What is distinctive about these two photographs? white housing and black housing In
this
photo, where is the white cemetery? The black cemetery? What
distinguishes the two?
Jasper, TX, Cemetery
On January 20, 1999, at a special unity service, the wrought-iron fence that separated the black and white graves for more than 150 years was torn down. About 75 people — black and white — sang in celebration. The fence had been standing since the cemetery opened in 1836. Source: AP Wire, Emerge, San Antonio Express-News. In Vicksburg, the mansions
of former slave owners lie across the tracks from the shotgun houses of poor
black
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