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Anna, Illinois, drove out its Black population in response to the 1909 lynching of William "Froggie" James in Cairo, Illinois, for the alleged rape and murder of Anna Pelley. [ 25 ] [ 45 ] The city's name was colloquially used as an acronym for "Ain't No Niggers Allowed", [ 46 ] [ 47 ] despite its namesake being Anna Davie, the town founder's wife.
Some city planners and real estate companies exercised their private authority to uphold racial segregation at the community level. [21] In addition to discriminatory housing rules, violence and harassment were sometimes used by locals to discourage Black people from remaining in their cities after sundown. [ 22 ]
Prior to "Holding a Black Lives Matter Sign in America's Most Racist Town", Bliss' previous videos were notable for touching on other social issues, including 2014's "10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman", [3] a video where actress Shoshana Roberts walks for ten hours through all areas of Manhattan compiling the frequent catcalling that she experienced.
This list of U.S. cities by black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is black or African American.
African Americans have been violently expelled from at least 50 towns, cities, and counties in the United States. Most of these expulsions occurred in the 60 years following the American Civil War but continued until 1954. The justifications for the expulsions varied but often involved a crime committed by White Americans, labor-related issues ...
Sacramento, like too many cities in California, has historically dedicated most of its residential land exclusively to single family homes. Known as exclusionary zoning, this policy walks in the ...
Pages in category "History of racism in Illinois" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... National Socialist Party of America v. Village of ...
The term blockbusting might have originated in Chicago, Illinois, where real estate companies and building developers used agents provocateurs. These were non-white people hired to deceive the white residents of a neighborhood into believing that black people were moving into their neighborhood.