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That’s not the timeline in Chicago. Racial covenants were deemed unconstitutional in the early 40s. White flight occurred in the 50s. By the time of the riots the neighborhoods that suffered from riots (and landlords burning their property for insurance fraud) were already majority black.



Late 40s. :)




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