THEY CHASED
the
GLOOM PEDDLERS
out of
MARYNOOK
NAOMI BRODKEY
(December 15, 1963)
LAST FEBRUARY, in a pleasant middle-class
neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, a young
white family purchased a home next door to Negroes.
This event was not...
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THEY CHASED
the
GLOOM PEDDLERS
out of
MARYNOOK
NAOMI BRODKEY
(December 15, 1963)
LAST FEBRUARY, in a pleasant middle-class
neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, a young
white family purchased a home next door to Negroes.
This event was not particularly unusual in Marynook,
where a pattern of interracial living is evolving with
extraordinary success.
In fact, Marynook’s experience
may demonstrate a solution to one of the most pressing
urban problems facing the country.
Marynook, a community of 423 single-family
homes, was built nine years ago.
It occupies some 12
blocks, with suburban-type winding streets and ranch and
split-level homes, priced in the $20,000’s.
Its location
well within the city made it very attractive to Chicagoans
who wanted to buy a house but who were loath to move
away from the conveniences of city living.
While Marynook began as an all-white community,
it nonetheless had a population well-diversified in other
respects.
Catholics, Protestants and Jews we
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