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Rubinowitz, Leonard S.; Rosenbaum, James E. – 2000
In 1976, thousands of low-income African Americans, mostly women and children, began to move out of the public housing developments of Chicago, Illinois, to the mostly white middle class suburbs. These families were part of the Gautreaux program, one of the largest court-ordered desegregation efforts in the United States. This book tells the story…
Descriptors: Blacks, Housing, Human Services, Low Income Groups
Peer reviewedKaufman, Julie E.; Rosenbaum, James E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Education and employment outcomes are examined for African-American youth in Chicago (Illinois) whose families moved from mostly African-American urban housing projects to mostly white suburbs or mostly African-American urban areas. The suburban youth's achievement was at least as good as and sometimes better than that of their urban counterparts.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Youth, Educational Attainment
