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How
Marynook
Meets
The Negro
by Terry Sullivan
(St.
Jude – January 1963)
Last April a Negro family moved into
Marynook.
By the end of the summer, 30
of Marynook’s 423 homes had been bought
by Negroes.
In theory, this might not be a
problem.
In fact it...
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How
Marynook
Meets
The Negro
by Terry Sullivan
(St.
Jude – January 1963)
Last April a Negro family moved into
Marynook.
By the end of the summer, 30
of Marynook’s 423 homes had been bought
by Negroes.
In theory, this might not be a
problem.
In fact it is, and a familiar one in
American cities.
Marynook is a small, handsome
neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
It
covers the area from 83rd to 87th Streets
south and from Dorchester to the Illinois
Central Railroad, a fast and inexpensive
link to downtown Chicago.
It was laid out
by J, F.
Merrion and Company in 1958 as
a model community of handsome town
houses on gracefully curving streets.
There are no alleys in the development or
busy through streets.
It is served by a
large shopping center built on the edge of
the community.
Avalon Park, a large,
beautifully landscaped public park with a
held house and playing fields, forms the
center of the community, which surrounds
it on three sides and has special access
ways leading i
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