History of Chicago: Unit 6 - Housing

Part 1: The Great Migration Black MetropolisRacial Segregation Kitchenettes

Part 2: The James Hickman Case

Part 3:Public HousingPhases of the CHASection 8 & VouchersWhat next.

Year: Population: % growth:% Black Pop:

1870 298,977 166.5%<1%

1880 503,185 68.3%<1%

1890 1,099,850 118.6%<1%

1900 1,698,575 54.4%<1%

1910 2,185,283 28.7%2%

1920 2,701,705 23.6%

1930 3,376,438 25.0%1940 3,396,808 0.6%

8%1950 3,620,962 6.6%

20%

Chicago Demographics

Bronzeville

The Great Migration: (1900) 2% 33% (1940)

Population of African Americans in Chicago

•1910: 40,000 (78% lived in “Black belt”)•1940: 278,000 •1970: 813,000

The “Black Belt”

“a city within a city”

47th & South Park (currently King Drive)

REGAL OPENS THIS WEEKHeadline in the Pittsburgh Courier, 1927

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 2: The Regal Theater, 47th and South Parkway, is scheduled to open February 4th. An elaborate program is planned for the opening week with Fess Williams, a Quintette from New York City, to do the stunts on the stage with a selected orchestra of 12 artists, while Dave Peyton will direct the orchestra in the pit. There will be several big loop acts on stage and first run pictures on the screen.

It’s called the South side’s million dollar theater and a large force of our race will be in evidence as employees. The theater is next to the Savoy Ballroom. Just north of the theater will be a drug store and on the 47th Street side, a big department store. The Urban League is making an effort, with the assistance of Sheridan A. Bruseaux, to supply the department store with competent clerks and sales girls. Mr. Dorrell of Lubiner and Trintz is manager of the Theater and Mr. Jordan, his assistant.

The Regal Theater:

Excerpt from a Restrictive Covenant

“Kitchenettes”