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Abundance Bakery, 89–92
Albert, Derrion, 118
Ali, Muhammad, 88
Allensworth, Elaine, 126
American Dream, 7, 14, 24–5, 56, 84, 106
Armstrong, Louis, 87
Ashton, Philip, 26–7
Ball, Bill, 89–92
Baltimore, Maryland, 3, 6–7, 24, 210, 217
Bank of America, 26
Bashaw, Michael, 143
Basie, Count, 87
Beck, Glenn, 163
Ben Sar Ahmadiel, Zarakyah, 163
Berry, Brian J. L., 51
Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA), 51–3. See also Chicago neighborhoods, communities, and parks: Beverly
Bilandic, Michael, 190
Bittman, Mark, 141
Black, Timuel, 97
Black Entertainment Television (BET), 22
Black History Month, 87
Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton), 43, 45, 96, 199
black middle class, 2, 36, 51–2, 76, 85, 127, 203
and Bronzeville, 85–8, 93–6, 99–100
and class distinctions, 22–3
and gentrification, 216
and the media, 13–14
and Queens, New York, 151
and West Chatham, 132
and white middle class, 16, 19, 27
black politics, 186–8, 197, 199–206. See also politics
Blacks in Green, 147
Blanc Gallery, 92–3
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 210–11
Boyd, Michelle R., 96–7
Brooks, DeAndre, 149
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 6, 36, 42, 87
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 37
Brown, Dorothy, 25, 27–9, 32, 34
Brown, Michael, 6
Brown v. Board of Education, 112–13, 117, 136
Buchanan v. Warley, 41
Bullard, Robert, 95
Burge, Jon, 202
Burke, Ed, 196
Burnett, Leo, 68
Burnham, Daniel, 6
Burroughs, Mary, 115–116
Cambry, Emile, Jr., 220–1
Candyman (film), 63
Carruthers, Charlene, 200–201
Carter, Jimmy, 119
Catlett, Elizabeth, 42
Cermak, Anton, 187
Chatham (South Side neighborhood), 2, 11–39, 76–8, 88
author’s childhood home, 11–14, 109, 112, 127, 211
author’s family’s move to Beverly from, 33–4
black-owned businesses, 14–15
Chatham Food Center 151
and collective efficacy, 30
and crime, 29–30
history of, 21–2
and housing crisis, 25–7, 31–2
as middle-market neighborhood, 25
vacant housing, 31–2
Chatham Avalon Park Community Council, 15, 30, 77
Checkerboard Lounge, 98
Chicago, Illinois, 1–9
“Black Belt,” 14, 21, 34, 38, 40, 42–6, 59, 63–5, 70, 88, 96, 115–16, 186, 189, 199
Commission on Human Relations, 49
Great Chicago Fire, 6
and Great Migration, 7, 13, 36, 40, 53, 56, 59, 86, 96–7, 163, 187
Jim Crow era, 35–48
and Lake Michigan, 6
North Side, 2, 17, 31, 39, 47, 60, 65, 76, 85, 125, 131–2, 135, 150, 156–7, 185, 196, 221
public transportation, 17–18, 22, 38–9, 83, 85, 89, 102, 133, 213
race riot of 1919, 212
Summer Dance, 8–9
West Side, 7, 50, 62–3, 121, 142, 161, 167, 170, 188, 198, 202, 216
and white flight, 48–53
See also Chicago neighborhoods, communities and parks; South Side
Chicago Home Theater Festival, 221
Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), 60–9, 71–82
HUD takeover of, 66
Plan for Transformation, 60, 66–9, 71–6, 81
See also housing; public housing
Chicago neighborhoods, communities, and parks
Avalon Park, 16
Beverly, 17, 33–4, 51–3, 109–10, 127, 129, 132–3, 221
Bronzeville, 83–108, 121, 154, 163–4, 196, 211, 213, 218
Edison Park, 34
Englewood, 49, 74–5, 124, 137–8, 140–1, 143–4, 146–54, 157, 161–2, 177, 211, 219–20
Grand Boulevard, 86, 90, 97, 102
Greater Grand Crossing, 76, 221
Gresham, 76
Hyde Park, 27, 46, 85, 108, 154, 164, 185, 196, 201, 216, 219
Jackson Park Highlands, 16
Lincoln Park, 76
Mandrake Park, 99
Morgan Park, 34, 53, 127–9, 133
Olympia Fields (suburb), 95
Pill Hill, 16
Roseland, 16, 63, 74, 118, 139, 163
Washington Heights, 16
West Chesterfield, 115
Wicker Park, 17
Woodlawn, 38–9, 44, 46, 48, 74–5, 118, 211
See also Chatham
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), 109–36
Burnside Elementary sit-in, 115–16
Chicago Board of Education, 110, 115–17, 119–20
desegregated busing, 17, 110–11, 119
desegregation consent decree, 110, 112, 129–31
Freedom Day boycotts, 117
and Hauser Report, 118–19
and housing patterns, 134
integration efforts, 110, 115–19
lack of diversity, 112–15
magnet schools, 109, 112, 119–20, 130–1, 134–6
race achievement gap, 130–1
racial enrollment (2014–2015), 114
and social capital, 125–6
teachers, 126
Webb v. the Chicago Board of Education, 117–18
See also schools
Chicago Urban League, 37, 47, 49
Chi-Raq (film), 160
Cisneros, Henry, 66
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 117, 119
Civil Rights Bill of 1988, 22
Coalition to Protect Public Housing, 75
Cobb, Delmarie, 196–7
collective efficacy, 30
Cooley High, 63
Cornelius, Don, 8
Corrigan v. Buckley, 41
Cosby Show, The, 13
Countrywide Financial, 26
criminal justice system
police brutality, 6, 7, 52, 163, 201, 207–12
policing and crime, 103, 165–6, 170–1, 174, 177–9
and politics, 188, 199, 201–2, 205
crime and violence, 159–81
Chicago Crime Tour, 166–7
and “Chiraq” nickname, 159–62, 174–5, 181
and the media, 167–77
prevention, 176–81
and urban Marshall Plan, 179–80
See also fear
Daley, Richard J., 41, 50–1, 59–61, 63, 113, 119, 183, 187, 189–90, 212
Daley, Richard M., 18, 60–1, 66–7, 98, 100, 102–3, 142, 183, 186, 191–3, 197–9, 202–3, 206, 212–13
retirement of, 202
Danns, Dionne, 113
Davis, Danny, 203
Dawson, William, 187–8
Demby, Gene, 173
Detroit, Michigan, 3, 24, 144–7, 162, 177, 192
Dirksen, Everett, 119
Dorsey, Thomas, 42
Double V Campaign, 37
drug trade, 29, 89, 104, 143–4
decriminalization, 179
and hood fatigue, 84
and public housing, 60–1, 65, 76–7
Duncan, Arne, 171
economic crisis, 19, 26, 31, 84. See also housing bubble and crisis
education. See Brown v. Board of Education; Chicago Public Schools (CPS); schools
Ellington, Duke, 87
Emanuel, Rahm, 146, 183, 201–3
employment, 19, 43, 65, 73, 126, 142, 146, 148, 157, 177, 179, 204–5. See also unemployment
Empowerment Zones (EZs), 100–101
Evans, Tim, 196–201
Fair Housing Act, 5–6, 216, 223
and black Chicagoans, 30, 163–4
fear complex, 30
and white criminality, 168
Federal Housing Administration, 26, 32, 42, 50
Ferguson, Missouri, 6, 7, 210, 217
Fleming, J. R., 203
Flowers, Leana, 88–9, 91–2, 98–9
food access, 137–58
corner stores, 151–5
neighborhood-owned grocers, 151
restaurants, 155–8
urban agriculture, 148–50
Gainer, Bridget, 31–2, 107, 224
Gallagher, Mari, 141–2
Garcia, Jesus “Chuy,” 203
Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, 81
defined, 84
and education, 135
and food access, 140, 144, 147
gentrification index, 216
and Jim Crow nostalgia, 95–7
and politics, 97–103
and retail, 89–95
“gentrifier,” 84
Gentry, James “Jimmy,” 87
Gerri’s Palm Tavern, 98
Gill, Johnny, 17
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 5
Giuliani, Rudy, 162
Good Times, 62
Gray, Freddie, 6
Green, Paul, 195
Grow Greater Englewood, 149–50
Growing Home, Inc., 148–9
Haider, Don, 194
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, 6
Hansberry, Lorraine, 44–7, 121
Harlem, New York, 2, 87, 99–100
Harold Washington Party, 198
Harsh, Vivian, 87
Hearst, William Randolph, 168
Henderson, Kimberly, 122–6, 132–4
hip-hop culture, 91–2
historically black colleges, 22, 125. See also Howard University
Holli, Melvin G., 195
Holt, Blair, 172
Holt, Lobeta, 61–2
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 41–2
Hoop Dreams, 62
Hoover, J. Edgar, 47
housing
contract buying, 50
home ownership, 7, 16, 19–26, 32, 39, 41–2, 53, 79, 83, 101, 106–7
mixed-income communities, 60–1, 67–73, 78–81, 90, 99
mortgage interest deduction, 32
residential mobility programs, 223–4
restrictive agreements, 44–7
segregation, 36–8
subsidized housing voucher program (Section 8), 20, 61–2, 73–82
See also public housing
housing bubble and crisis, 4, 26, 53, 86, 88, 90, 106. See also economic crisis
Howard University, 12, 44, 56, 124, 225
Hunt, D. Bradford, 65
Hurricane Katrina, 144, 205, 210
Hyde Park Property Owners, Inc., 46–7
Hynes, Tom, 194–5
Hyra, Derek S., 100–101
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), 152–4
Jackson, Jesse, Sr., 22, 190–1, 195–6
Jackson Park Highlands, 16
Jacob, John E., 180
Jarrett, Valerie, 64, 101, 198
Jemison, Mae, 128
Jim Crow era, 1, 6–7, 35–48, 56
Jim Crow nostalgia, 96–7
Johnson, Bennett, 189
Johnson, Ethel, 49
Johnson, John H., 87
Johnson, Roscoe, 49
Johnson Product Company, 14
Johnson Publishing Company, 87
Kaba, Mariame, 160
Kerner Commission (Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders), 5–6, 217
Khan, Chaka, 2
Kids Off the Block, 163
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50–1, 99, 109, 159, 191, 210
Kirk, Mark, 177–8
Kocoras, Charles P., 129
Kohn, Henry, 48
Kotlowitz, Alex, 63
Krysan, Maria, 3
Lake Meadows high-rises, 87–8
Lane, Vincent, 67
Latiker, Diane, 163
Lee, Anna, 44–5
Lee, Lisa Yun, 220
Lewis, Karen, 203
Los Angeles, California, 161, 192
Louis, Joe, 87
Madigan, Lisa, 26
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar, 214–15
Marshall Field’s department store, 38–9
Marszewski, Ed, 214–15
Marszewski, Maria, 214–15
Martin, Trayvon, 163
Massey, Douglas, 4–5, 43, 223–4
McAfee, Kimberley, 74–5
McClain, Leanita, 193–4
McCormick Place (convention center), 102–3
McDonald, Laquan, 201
McMillian, Tracie, 147
Mell, Richard, 196
Metcalfe, Ralph, 189
Michaeli, Ethan, 66
middle class. See black middle class
middle-market neighborhoods, 25
Mollison, Irvin C., 121
Moseley Braun, Carol, 186, 203
Motley, Archibald, Jr., 42, 87
Muhammad, Elijah, 191
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 168–9
Muwakkil, Salim, 179
NAACP, 47
Nashville, Tennessee, 35–6, 55–6
New York City, 2–3, 65, 87, 99–100, 151, 161, 167
Northwestern University, 18–19, 69, 189, 194, 217
Novara, Marisa, 224
Oakwood Cemetery, 57
Oakwood Shores (mixed-income development), 69, 99
Obama, Barack, 18, 27–8, 64, 101, 185
and Bud Billiken Parade, 88
and coalition politics, 204–6
endorsement of Dorothy Tillman, 99
inauguration, 172
South Side “Obama factor,” 164–5
South Side as political home of, 2, 186
South Side income and taxes, 27–8
Obama, Michelle, 27–8, 151, 198
2015 King College Prep High School commencement speech, 211
Let’s Move program, 140
South Side household income and taxes, 27–8
South Side native, 2
Obejas, Achy, 218–19
Oliver, Gerri, 98
Orfield, Gary, 112–13, 120, 126–7, 130, 134–5, 217
Orfield, Myron, 135
Orr, David, 196
Overton, Anthony, 87, 103, 121–2
Papachristos, Andrew, 176–7
Parks, Gordon, 42
Pattillo, Mary, 16, 19, 26, 217–18
Pendleton, Hadiya, 172
Pilditch, Walter, 128–9
Pilgrim Baptist Church, 42, 87
Point DuSable, Jean Baptiste, 40
police. See criminal justice system
politics, 183–206
black politics, 186–8, 197, 199–206
coalition politics, 185–6, 191, 195, 205–6
and neoliberalism, 204
voting, 201
See also individual politicians
Pollan, Michael, 141
Popkin, Sue, 78
Preckwinkle, Toni, 203
Price, Randy, 103–5
Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), 176
protests, 5–7, 115–16, 163, 188
public housing, 8, 20, 39, 120, 171, 183, 185, 188, 201, 203
Cabrini-Green, 60, 62–3, 67–9, 71, 80, 135, 172, 190
demolition of, 8, 60, 66, 70–2, 81, 85, 100
and Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority, 80–1
Henry Horner Homes, 63, 71, 80
Ida B. Wells Homes, 99
Robert Taylor Homes, 59–61, 64–5, 68–72, 75, 82, 90, 112
Parkside of Old Town, 60
public housing authority, 223
Stateway Gardens, 69, 71–2, 74–5, 79
See also housing
Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 40
and black neighborhoods, 23, 32, 52, 115
“Chiraq” as, 160
and criminal justice system, 7, 166, 210
and education, 115, 117, 129, 132, 134–5
and health care, 116
and Jim Crow era, 35
and white segregation, 210
Ransom, Lou, 178
Rawls, Loud, 97–8
Reagan, Ronald, veto of 1988 Civil Rights Bill, 22
redlining, 4, 18, 31–3, 42, 95, 178
Redmond, James, 119
Robb, Walter, 143–7
Rome, Cliff, 92–3
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 63, 187
Roosevelt University, 65
Sacramento, California, 3
Sampson, Robert, 7, 29–30, 94–5, 219
Savage, Gus, 189
Scarborough, Joe, 163
Selassie, Haile, 88
Sandburg, Carl, 6
Sawyer, Eugene, 196–9
schools
Beasley Elementary, 112
Bogan High School, 118
Burnside Elementary, 115–116, 118
Fenger High School, 118
Gillespie Elementary, 115–16
Irvin C. Mollison Elementary, 109, 120–5, 132–4
Lane Tech High School, 133
Lenart Elementary Regional Gifted Center, 132–3
McDade Classical Elementary School, 131, 133
Morgan Park High School, 127–9, 133
Perry Elementary, 115
Poe Elementary Classical School, 131, 133
Sutherland Elementary, 110–12, 133
See also Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
Seals, L. Anton, Jr., 150–1, 157, 197
segregation, 1–9, 17–18, 210–12, 216–25
black compared with other racial and ethnic groups, 43–4
and black middle class, 17–19, 22–3
and crime and violence, 160–1, 164–5, 178–81
and education, 109–36
and food access, 139–58
and housing, 36–43, 46–8, 51, 60–1, 66–7, 73–5, 80–2, 85–8
and self-selection/self-identification, 225
solutions, 217–25
Shelley v. Kraemer, 14, 21, 48, 51, 63, 87
Silver, Nate, 3
Sinclair, Upton, 6
Smith, Janet, 222
Soft Sheen Products, 14, 163, 191
Soul Train, 8–9
South Side
black cultural nationalist theater, 225
and “Chiraq,” 159–60
and Moore’s childhood and family, 2, 11–17, 20, 38–40, 54–7, 211
and race/class debate, 8
and retail leakage, 95
and torture of arrestees, 201–2
unemployment, 216
See also Chatham; Chicago neighborhoods, communities and parks; Chicago Public Schools (CPS); crime and violence; food; gentrification; housing
South Side Community Arts Center, 42, 87
Sullivan, Louis, 87
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 138–9
Taylor, Koko, 2
Taylor, Robert, 64–5. See also Robert Taylor Homes
Tefera, Nicole, 174–6
Thompson, Dhyia, 93–4
Thompson, Janelle, 123
Till, Emmett, 38
Tillman, Dorothy, 97–9
Travis, Dempsey, 189
Underground Railroad, 40
unemployment, 1, 20, 60, 88, 137, 143, 161, 178–80, 200, 216
University of Chicago, 38, 44–6, 85, 108, 172, 176, 179, 186, 188, 204, 219
Consortium on Chicago School Research, 125–6
Vale, Lawrence J., 73
Veterans Administration, 42
Vilsack, Tom, 145
violence. See crime and violence; criminal justice system
Voisin, Dexter, 172
Vrdolyak, Ed “Fast Eddie,” 192–5, 198
Walgreens, 151
Washington, Harold, 2, 22, 53, 57, 184–7, 189, 191, 195, 198–200, 202, 205–6
Waters, Muddy, 36
WBEZ-Chicago Public Media, 3
West, Kanye, 6
Westhaven Park Tower, 80
white flight, 18–19, 48–53, 63, 87, 109, 118, 178, 192
white segregation 210–11
Whole Foods, 140, 142–8, 154–5
Wilkerson, Isabel, 40
Williams, Daniel Hale, 87
Williams, Juan, 162
Williams, Orrin, 157
Willis, Benjamin, 117–19
Winfrey, Oprah, 18, 22, 63, 88, 155
Wood, Elizabeth, 63–5
Worrill, Conrad, 191, 196, 198, 200, 205–6
Wortham, Thomas, IV, 29
Wright, Patricia A., 75
WVON, 196–7