Article 64GZ9 The Fall and Rise of Chicago’s Bronzeville

The Fall and Rise of Chicago’s Bronzeville

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Alexandra Jane
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As the first Black Americans migrated from southern states to the South Side of Chicago in 1916, the community and its people faced a bright and hopeful future, fragrant with the smell of a fresh start, and bountiful opportunity. While being called disparaging names like, The Black Ghetto" by non-Black outsiders, the...

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