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In 1960, some 53 of the neighborhood's 51,347 residents were non-white, and of those 53 residents, three were black. [1] Some African Americans had jobs that enabled them to improve their housing, but were limited by discrimination by real estate agents and banks in getting loans, and related approvals.
The program was the first televised tour of the White House by a first lady and is considered the first prime-time documentary specifically designed to appeal to a female audience. [2] The program showed Kennedy on a tour of the house with CBS News correspondent Charles Collingwood. The videotaped tour was the first glimpse the American public ...
The White House logo Name plate of The White House [1]. The White House was the first department store in San Francisco; it opened in 1854 and closed in 1965.It was originally named Davidson & Lane, then J.W. Davidson & Company, and finally, in 1870, when it moved to a large new building, took the name "The White House".
If you love collecting cars and money is no object, it's hard to imagine any decade's vehicles are worth obsessing over more than those from the 1960s. ... 20 Best Cities Where You Can Buy a House ...
Riverview closed in 1967. Urban myths endure, describing the park's "seedy" atmosphere in the 1960s, as it coincidentally became more integrated. [6] Contemporaneous articles in black publications, such as the Chicago Defender, described black patrons being subject to both latent and overt racism; the most overt being a longstanding attraction (not owned by Riverview) but by an outside ...
Taft's 1911 White steamer. President William Howard Taft changed things at the White House, converting the stables there to a garage and purchasing a four-car fleet [9] on a budget of $12,000 (equivalent to about $407,000 in 2023): [11] two "luxurious" Pierce-Arrow cars, a Baker Motor Vehicle electric car, and a $4,000 (equivalent to about $136,000 in 2023) 1911 White Motor Company steam car.
To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal : 1855-1960. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0-275-93415-2; Sautter, R. Craig, Edward M. Burke. Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Conventions, 1860-1996. Chicago: Loyola Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8294-0911-4; Simpson, Vernon.
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