Shades Of White Flight

Since World War II, historians have analysed a phenomenon of "white flight" plaguing the urban areas of the northern US. One of the most interesting cases of "white flight" occurred in the Chicago neighbourhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations left the city in the 1960s and 70s. Mark T. Mulder investigates the migration of these Chicago church members, revealing how these churches not only failed to inhibit white flight, but actually facilitated the congregations' departure.