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... urban ghettos was " white flight , " in which middle - class urban whites left the inner cities for the suburbs . White flight , which began in earnest in the 1950s , had created a highly segregated urban land- scape by the mid - 1960s ...
... urban ghettos was " white flight , " in which middle - class urban whites left the inner cities for the suburbs . White flight , which began in earnest in the 1950s , had created a highly segregated urban land- scape by the mid - 1960s ...
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... Urban League from 1961 until his death in 1971 , is credited with turning the organization from a relatively passive and reactive group into one that more outspokenly and aggressively fought for racial justice and equality . Young was ...
... Urban League from 1961 until his death in 1971 , is credited with turning the organization from a relatively passive and reactive group into one that more outspokenly and aggressively fought for racial justice and equality . Young was ...
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... Urban League , 1910-1961 . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1981 . Parris , Guichard . Blacks in the City : A History of the National Urban League . New York : Little , Brown , 1971 . Weiss , Nancy Joan . The National ...
... Urban League , 1910-1961 . State College : Pennsylvania State University Press , 1981 . Parris , Guichard . Blacks in the City : A History of the National Urban League . New York : Little , Brown , 1971 . Weiss , Nancy Joan . The National ...
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African Americans in Halls of Fame | 907 |
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