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==Discrimination=
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According to [[Timuel Black]];
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''But until the courts struck down restrictive housing covenants in 1948, the blacks in Chicago were all very tightly packed together in their own enclaves, just as we had been in the South. For instance, Allison Davis, who was the first black full professor at the University of Chicago, couldn’t live in Hyde Park because they wouldn’t sell him a house''.
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==Friends of Alice Palmer==
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Mid 1990s Allison Davis was listed<ref>Undated Friends of Alice Palmer membership list. Harold Washington papers</ref>as a member of [[Friends of Alice Palmer]] (in formation), alongside [[Danny K Davis]], [[Tony Rezko]], [[Timuel Black]] and [[Barack Obama]].
 
Mid 1990s Allison Davis was listed<ref>Undated Friends of Alice Palmer membership list. Harold Washington papers</ref>as a member of [[Friends of Alice Palmer]] (in formation), alongside [[Danny K Davis]], [[Tony Rezko]], [[Timuel Black]] and [[Barack Obama]].
  
 
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[[Category:Friends of Alice Palmer]]

Revision as of 23:12, 22 November 2009

Allison davis...

=Discrimination

According to Timuel Black;

But until the courts struck down restrictive housing covenants in 1948, the blacks in Chicago were all very tightly packed together in their own enclaves, just as we had been in the South. For instance, Allison Davis, who was the first black full professor at the University of Chicago, couldn’t live in Hyde Park because they wouldn’t sell him a house.

Friends of Alice Palmer

Mid 1990s Allison Davis was listed[1]as a member of Friends of Alice Palmer (in formation), alongside Danny K Davis, Tony Rezko, Timuel Black and Barack Obama.

References

  1. Undated Friends of Alice Palmer membership list. Harold Washington papers