An integrated neighborhood transforms into an all-black neighborhood.
After a year at Turner's Station they moved to Cherry Hill, an all-Black lower-income neighborhood in the south section of Baltimore.
More profoundly, those years saw a change from a mostly affluent white neighborhood to an integrated, middle-class community and then to a virtually all-black and poor neighborhood.
He cited studies that showed only one-tenth of blacks wanted to live in all-black neighborhoods.
In the intervening fifty years, Clybourne Park has become an all-black neighborhood, which is now gentrifying.
It's very hard when you're a white, middle-class librarian, and you try to go into an all-black neighborhood to tell them that reading is important.
On another occasion, he defended his decision to yank deputies out of an all-black neighborhood in Avondale after residents complained about police brutality.
"We didn't want our children growing up in an all-black neighborhood," said Naomi Harris, "because they are not going to graduate into an all-black world."
And after living in all-black neighborhoods, the newcomers suddenly become a distinct minority.
Los Angeles's formerly all-black neighborhoods have experienced the most intense demographic changes in a demographically volatile region.