Growing up in North Philadelphia, I understood ‘White Flight’ to be a negative concept that left the neighborhood that I lived in for my whole life in despair. I remember riding home from school and seeing all of the abandoned warehouses and wondering what was there function and when was the last time people worked in them. The effects of white flight became very evident to me as I learned who once lived in my neighborhood versus who I see remaining.
White Flight is a concept that is said to have originated in the United States in the mid-20th century. It is described to be the large scaled migration of people of various European backgrounds from racially mixed urban settings, to more racially homogenous suburban or exurban regions (Wikipedia). This concept was largely noticed between the 1950s and 1960s (before this time there was not a good system to track these movements) in cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, and Oakland, where desegregation of the schools happened prior to Brown vs. The Board of Education. White families began to move out of the inner cities and put their children in private school to avoid forced integration. …show more content…
The Great Migration was a response by black citizens fleeing the harsh Jim Crow laws in the south. At the beginning of the 20th century, 90% of black Americans resided in the south, but by the end of the Great Migration nearly half of black citizens migrated to the north and west. This event was huge in the way the African Americans now experienced living in the United States. They went from living in the rural south, the living in overcrowded neighborhoods in which they were limited to in
White Flight is a concept that is said to have originated in the United States in the mid-20th century. It is described to be the large scaled migration of people of various European backgrounds from racially mixed urban settings, to more racially homogenous suburban or exurban regions (Wikipedia). This concept was largely noticed between the 1950s and 1960s (before this time there was not a good system to track these movements) in cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, and Oakland, where desegregation of the schools happened prior to Brown vs. The Board of Education. White families began to move out of the inner cities and put their children in private school to avoid forced integration. …show more content…
The Great Migration was a response by black citizens fleeing the harsh Jim Crow laws in the south. At the beginning of the 20th century, 90% of black Americans resided in the south, but by the end of the Great Migration nearly half of black citizens migrated to the north and west. This event was huge in the way the African Americans now experienced living in the United States. They went from living in the rural south, the living in overcrowded neighborhoods in which they were limited to in