The Emergence Of Ghettos
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Cities emerged during the Industrial Revolution period; this was a time where technology was advancing. Within the cities ghettos were born. A ghetto is section of a city where members of a minority group are segregated. Mainly lower class social economic status, and welfare receipts dwell in this ....
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.... down and move to the suburbs. As the factories left, this left many blacks jobless and stuck in the ghettos.
Urban problems were also a major effect on the ghettos. Railroads had brought many blacks up from the south and into the ghettos. More importantly, blacks were competition to the whites for jobs. During the 1900-1920 time period racial violence broke out in major cities around the nation. Riots took cities by storm. Blacks that lived in white neighborhoods had their homes blown up. ....
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