Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white children at Field, however, ten have recently moved into the neighborhood. The other 30 come from relatively poor families, which could not afford private schools. The many other white children of the area seem to be deliberately shunning the heavily-Negro Field school. It appears, instead, that they are choosing a school where they are in a majority, in this case the nearby Clark school, where the white-colored ratio is 2 to 1. Our objecting Southerners ease back in their chairs. "We told you so," they...
...motives of this neighborhood's white children, however, differ from what our Southern group suspects. When the St. Louis Board of Education ruled, in compliance with the Supreme Court's decision, that the city's elementary schools would integrate this September, it had to construct completely new school districts. But it gave all children the option of continuing in their old schools in spite of the new districts. Before this fall's integration, the white children in the Field neighborhood had all gone to the segregated Clark school. Most of them, naturally, wanted to continue there, not because Clark...
...Administration's wait-and-see approach to its proposed faculty housing in the Shady Hill area seems to have brought quiet results, a survey of neighborhood opinion revealed last night...
...these garden apartments which most of the neighborhood favor. "I would be sorry to see any change in this neighborhood," said one resident, "but I would not be so bitter about the garden apartments. I do still resent the big building," she added...
Upton was a leading organizer of a resolution to the Administration opposing the project, which at first drew nearly 100 percent support in the neighborhood. The resolution was drafted and sent to Harvard Hall immediately after the Administration proposal was introduced at a special meeting of local residents in Hunt Hall...