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- They were constructed between 1939–41 as part of the Public Works Administration and demolished from 2002–2011.
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Aug 2, 2018 · In 1892, Wells had left Memphis to attend a conference in Philadelphia, when the office of the newspaper she co-owned was destroyed and her co-editor was run out of town.
- Becky Little
Named after Wells, the Ida B. Wells Homes were a series of rowhouses, mid-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in 1941 to house Black families in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. When the homes first opened, more than 18,000 families applied to live in the 1,600-unit complex.
Named after Wells, the Ida B. Wells Homes were a series of rowhouses, mid-rise and high-rise apartment buildings, constructed in 1941 to house Black families in the heart of the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. When the homes first opened, more than 18,000 families applied to live in the 1,600-unit complex.
The Ida B. Wells Homes consisted of row houses, mid-rises, and high-rise apartment buildings constructed to house African American tenants. They were demolished beginning in 2002 and ending in 2011.
On May 1, 1910, the Negro Fellowship League Reading Room and Social Center opened at 2830 South State Street. With a small library, a job center, and, later, a dormitory, its goal was to be a social service center for young Black men who had recently arrived in Chicago from the South.
Dec 23, 2014 · This is Tiffany Sanders. She was about 10 years old in 1993 when this photo was taken at the Clarence Darrow high-rises, an extension of Chicago’s oldest public housing development, the Ida B....
Mar 7, 2019 · In 1941 the Public Works Administration built the Ida B. Wells Homes, Chicago’s oldest African-American public housing development located in the Bronzeville neighborhood where Wells resided. The public housing — built when federal housing policy permitted racial segregation — once flourished to house over 13,000 residents, but by the ...
