People from different racial and ethnic groups live in different neighborhoods, and the pace of eliminating segregation has slowed down. Social outcomes usually correspond to where people live. This interactive feature shows that Philadelphia is usually segregated by race. Its residents are 44.1 percent black, 35.8 percent white, 13.6 percent Latino and 7.2 percent Asian.
And yet, it's also an extremely segregated city. This story measures the level of racial segregation in Philadelphia over time, and compares it to other cities. We found that Philadelphia remains one of the most segregated cities and metropolitan areas in the country, and that the desegregation rate has been slowing down. Plans and designs for the famous development of Long Island, and its sister in the Philadelphia suburb of Bucks County, had to be submitted to the FHA for approval in order to obtain low-interest bank loans.
The story of the modern civil rights movement is usually told as a regional tale, the efforts of African American southerners and their northern allies, black and white, to overthrow Jim Crow's segregation in the face of heated and often violent opposition from white southern politicians, racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan. Segregation and its attendant ills are not new, but drawing attention to them from a new perspective helped to start conversations about it. For Peay, in North Philadelphia, the inability of many African Americans to obtain mortgages in the mid-20th century remains an obstacle to today's community. Zahava Stadler of the national study center Education Trust, which studies eliminating segregation, said Pennsylvania stands out among states for its many districts, there are 500 and because of the inequality of funding between them, due to a greater dependence on property taxes to fund schools than in most other states.
Closer to Broad Street and along major highways, such as Lehigh Avenue, are the faded remnants of the 19th century past of North Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, the slow pace of racial change has left many members of Philadelphia's civil rights community discouraged. When Alex Peay moved to Philadelphia from New York City 10 years ago, he was amazed by the magnitude of the divestment. We used data from the 6 most recent censuses to derive the “index of dissimilarity” (a common measure of segregation) for Philadelphia and peer cities over time.
The history of civil rights activism in 20th century Philadelphia begins with the founding of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1912. Just like across the country most of the segregation in the area is due to school district boundaries, according to the report. For white and non-white students in general, it ranked fourth in the severity of school segregation among the 403 metropolitan areas studied. Fairhill Apartments, a North Philadelphia public housing site, was built in 1959 in the red area. Those decisions concerned segregation between blacks and whites; since then, Latinos have become the fastest growing ethnic student group in the country.
About a third of the houses on West Oakdale Street between 15th and 16th in North Philadelphia are empty.
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