FROM ISSUE NUMBER 96 - SUMMER 1989 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
The impact of inner-city crime
My grandmother, an Italian immigrant, lived in the same Philadelphia row house from 1921 till her death in 1986. When she moved there, and for the four decades thereafter, most of her neighbors were Irish and Italian. When she died, virtually all of her neighbors were black. Like the whites who fled, the first blacks who moved in were mostly working-class people living just above the poverty line.
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