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More On Segregation

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Pete Saunders
Apr 19, 2017
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Scenes from the Marquette Park Open Housing March in Chicago in 1966.  Martin Luther King, Jr. and fellow marchers were pelted with rocks from a surrounding mob, in what they called a defense of their community.  Source: npr.org

Yesterday I wrote a piece at Forbes about the Metropolitan Planning Council's Cost of Segregation study that details the impac…

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