Some white residents worked to stop it, but the fear was too strong.

To hear many white residents tell it, what happened here last Christmas is ancient history.

Young people in this group make up about 50 percent of the city's white, black and Hispanic residents.

And some white residents said their neighbors tried to do what they could to keep minorities out.

He did so in the face of strong opposition from influential white residents on the city's east side.

For the next twelve years, he and his wife were the only permanent white residents of the county.

He is more popular with white residents than those of other races.

In contrast, only 20 percent of the county's white residents had come from the District.

Longtime white residents also turned to try to force the poor blacks out of town.

By the late 1970s very few white residents were left.