When neighborhood slums were torn down, they often displaced their tenants, many of whom were Black. The new public housing projects like Cedar Central and the Cedar Central Extension did not let in Black families for years and when they did integrate it was at a much lower rate. This news headline from Call and Post, a leading Black newspaper in Cleveland, uncovered what many knew to be correct, that Black families were being excluded even from government funded public housing. Meanwhile, Blacks also faced backlash when they attempted to move into many outlying neighborhoods and suburbs that real estate brokers and residents deemed "all-white." In such a climate, the unfortunate result was displacement into other inner-city neighborhoods where overcrowding replicated slum conditions. | Date: April 26, 1947 | Source: Call and PostDownload Original File
