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Word: deerfielders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deerfield, Ill., a velvet-lapel commuter suburb of Chicago, the citizenry took extraordinary measures to keep twelve Negro families out of town. Ostensibly, the voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Caws in the Wind | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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