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The Black Belt of Chicago was the chain of neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago where three-quarters of the city's African-American population lived by the mid-20th century. [4] In the early 1940s Whites within residential blocks formed "restrictive covenants" that served as legal contracts restricting individual owners from renting or ...
The black population began to be zoned out of the wealthy white neighborhoods and began to purchase property the south side which became known as "black belt". This area became the racial center for blacks in the city and would later develop into the lower-income housed, majority African American area of the city.
The Black Belt was an area of aging, dilapidated housing that stretched 30 blocks along State Street on the South Side. It was rarely more than seven blocks wide. [21] Many African Americans who moved to the Black Belt area of Chicago were from the Southeastern region of the United States. Discrimination played a big role in the lives of blacks.
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and ...
By 1910, the black population in Chicago reached 40,000, with 78% residing in the Black Belt. [24] [25] Extending 30 blocks, mostly between 31st and 55th Streets, [26] along State Street, but only a few blocks wide, [24] it developed into a vibrant community dominated by black businesses, music, food and culture. [25]
The Chicago riot lasted almost a week, ending only after the Government of Illinois deployed nearly 6,000 Illinois Army National Guard troops around the Black Belt to prevent further white attacks. The majority of the rioting, murder, and arson was committed by white ethnic groups attacking the Black Belt on the South Side, while most of the ...
Chicago has been scrambling to find housing for the nearly 20,000 migrants who have arrived since August 2022, many in buses sent from the Mexican border by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.