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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"suburban history"”.
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Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
… chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan in the suburban Chicago community of Oak Park, Illinois. Through the use of a rare manuscript collection this study provides a glimpse into the daily lives of suburban Klanswomen grappling with changing demographics in the village where they lived. …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
… how economic development shaped African American suburbanization on Long Island, New York from 1920 through 1980. After 1940, the fortunes of Long Island’s growing black population shifted from widespread poverty to upward social mobility, though by the 1960s, a divide emerged between the rising …