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The history of Chicago can be told through its neighborhoods, and perhaps none is more telling than Douglas/Grand Boulevard on the city's south side. The future site of the neighborhood remained a sparsely settled prairie until the early 1850s, when Stephen A. Douglas purchased a large tract of land and began developing a residential subdivision for the wealthy. Douglas/Grand Boulevard: A Chicago Neighborhood explores the development of this distinctive community and the many obstacles its residents encountered. Originally a predominately white neighborhood, Douglas/Grand Boulevard became an African-American community during the Great Migration when thousands of Southern blacks moved north seeking greater opportunities. After the 1919 Race Riot, an increasing number of white residents moved away from the neighborhood, and the community became a national model of black achievement.
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Author Olivia Mahoney is Director of Historical Documentation at the Chicago Historical Society. This book is largely based on an exhibition she developed in 1995 with residents of Douglas/Grand Boulevard as part of the historical society's path-breaking project, Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture.
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- PublisherArcadia Publishing
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0738518557
- ISBN 13 9780738518558
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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