The Revolution of 1963-Part III
House-Hunting Negro faces One of Major Tension Poi
KDITOK'S NOTE: Many the major tension points of the
Negroes believe the only
string that should be attached
to obtaining housing should be
me purse string. The follow
ing dispatch, third of five, re
ports on the sentiments and
problems the Negro faces ' in
obtaining a place to live.
By AL KUETTNER
United Press International ,
When a Negro goes house
hunting, he is headed for one of
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civil rights dispute
Even in areas where there is
almost whole-hearted sympathy
for the Negro revolution, there
is an attitude that the problem
should be solved "but not in my
neighborhood."
A railroad track ... a river
front. . .(he , end of the pave
ment. Those are the boundary
lines in city after city between
the white and Negro sections.
Negroes say they still are re
stricted to ghetto life, regard
less of how extensive their
neighborhoods or how expensive
their.-dwellings. - ...
Most states report that Ne
groes live in their own neigh
borhoods "by custom." But
"whose custom is it?" asked
one Negro.
"You" might say that Negroes
are just evpanding the ghetto,"
reported a St. Louise Negro
newspaper publisher.
In just about every state in
the nation where there is a
sizeable Negro population, a
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move by Negroes toward or into
a white neighborhood produces
an exodus or violence some
times both.
Same Everywhere
It is the same in Folcroft,
Pa., Dayton, Ohio, 'Atlanta,
Denver, San Francisco, New
York or scores of other spots.
It is fear of lowered property
values. It is,' for Negro and
white, a stubborn battle for the
biggest material investment
most of them ever make; a
home. .
In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Leal
en B. Hillis says some of the
most tolerant whites are those
who live in "safe".' .. neighbor
hoods. "When we went looking for a
new home, they wouldn't take
our present home in trade be
cause the Negroes have been
moving into this area," said
Mrs. Hillis. "The Negroes are
still eight or ten blocks from
us, but our property isn't worth
what it used to be because of
this."
Mrs. H i 1 1 i s, ' a 33-year-old
housewife, said she sided with
the Negro cause more than a
year ago. That was before the
Hillis property value dropped.
Take Legal Steps
Last summer, the late Presi
dent Kennedy issued an execu
tive order forbidding discrimina
tion in any building, project
that receives federal aid. The
V. S. Supreme Court has out
lawed real estate covenants that
restrict home buying to certain
racial groups.
A 1961 Indiana law provides
that any person who bars an
other from a public housing
project "by reason of' race,
creed or color" is subject to a
maximum penalty of 30 days
imprisonment and a $100 fine.
There have been no convictions.
Many other ordinances, reso
lutions and rulings have been is
sued to forestall actual or de
facto segregated housing, but
few have resulted in great suc
cess. Most are superceded by
an unwritten law: When Ne
groes move in, whites move out.
Negroes themselves are mak
ing an effort at education cam
paigns to forestall panic selling
by whites and greedy buying
by Negroes.
Some of the strongest senti
ment against Negroes moving
into predominantly white resi
dential areas has been in the
non-South.
.When Harold Amos, a Negro,
started constructing a home in
a white suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.,
anti - Negro slogans were
scrawled on the ppr'ially com
pleted dwelling. The Rev. Rob
ert A. Rounce, a white clergy
man, appeared with 20 of his
church members the next day
and painted over the words.
Main Problem
Negroes say their main hous
ing problem, is finding adequate
homes for low income Negroes
and housing they can afford.
A high-rise, high-rent apart
ment building now dominates
the scene in Atlanta's "Butter
milk Bottom," formerly an area
of dilapidated Negro shacks.
But some of the best low-cost
housing available to Negroes in
the nation has replaced the
slums.
The most desirable Negro
section in Jacksonville, N.C., is
a new subdivision developed by
a prominent white builder. The
project resulted from efforts of
James Robinson, publisher of
the Jacksonville Daily News.
The homes are two- and three
story brick structures on paved
streets.
The negative side of Jackson
ville's Negro housing long
lower Court and K; .r'-,.
This is the city's ga ..(.e ;.',d
sewage disposal area.
When it comes to segregation
versus integration, "lines of
communication" between the
races often make the difference
in peace or tension.
"When it comes to housing. I
don't think the Negro under
stands the way the white feels,
and 1 don't think 'the whites are
making any attempt to know
how the Negro feels," says
Mrs. Thomas Newman, a white
housewife . in Eminence, Ky.
The Negroes are going too
fast in housing."
Two Of Largest
Two of the largest concentra
tions of Negroes in the world
are in New York City and Chi
cago. In Chicago the Negro pop
ulation has gained 63 per cent
in the past 10 years. During
the same period, the while pop
ulation decreased by 13 per
cent.
Most of the Negroes in Chi
cago live in an area three by
nine miles, but fingers of Ne
gro settlements are spreading to
other sections. The median val
ue of a Negro-owned home in
the city is $16,700, reflecting a
boost of 82 per cent in a single
decade.
The Windy City's Negro sec
tion also is a poorer section of
town. This is the area where
a 35-ycar-old Negro auto washer
who migrated from Jackson,
Miss., lives. He had hoped liv
ing would be better.
The Negro, who declined use
of his name, stands daylong
near a track and hops in front
of a car to swab down the
chrome. He has little education,
and a wife and five children.
'We got to have more money
and more living room," he
says. "We're sitting on top of
cacn otner. He asus nimselt,
why are our schools crowded?
We got to live all penned in
here. When somebody tries to
move out, they got to move into
white neighborhoods because
there just ain't no place else
to go here.
The problem worries white things I have gained to be con- bought a new home," said Mrs.
Americans as much as any side.red a Sood Samaritan," said Natalie Seiman, a Connecticut
, 'an insurance salesman in Okla- housewife "I can't reallv sav
phase of the Negro transition, homa City. wnatTy feeling wouU b it a
I don t want to sacrifice the "My husband and I have just neighbor sold to a Negro.
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DALLAS Attorney Melvin Belli, after talking In private
with his client, Jack Ruby, charged with the murder of Presi
dent Kennedy's accused assassin:
"My eyes were moist when he recounted what he went
through."
WASHINGTON - Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich, in a pre
pared eulogy to President Kennedy:
"In the past few weeks, millions of the world's people
have worn a look of stunned despair. Certainly, nothing I could
say would he n more eloquent tribute to John F. Kennedy than
the grief on those faces."
WASHINGTON President Johnson on the Senate's action
in passing a $1.2 billion college construction aid bill:
"This Congress Is well on Its way to doing more for educa
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passed 100 years ago."
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