Black clients funded our white flight.
Jane Meacham, Washington, DC. My dad is a lawyer in Kansas City, MO, who always had mostly black, working-class clients. When the city school district...
Busing: white girl, black schools, lonely
Clara Silverstein, Boston, MA. As one of the white children in Richmond, Virginia in the 1970s whose family willingly participated in busing, I had few...
I survived the white flight.
Misty Johnson, Lilburn, GA. I moved to Georgia in 1988 when I was 8 years old. My father left his job on the oil rigs...
Lifetime in slipstream of white flight
Richard Bacon Chicago, IL Mid 1970s living in perfectly nice middle class neighborhood in NE Dallas Texas. The desecration, by busing, of the neighborhood school...
I hate hearing “the neighborhood changed”
Glenny Brock, Submitted via Twitter: @glennybrock Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who themselves CHANGED neighborhoods by...
White flight child knows no brOTHERs
Jeffrey Kingdon Danville, IN Whether my 50’s era parents chose their life in the suburbs due to racial considerations or were simply following the trend...
I hate hearing “The neighborhood changed.”
Glenny Brock , Birmingham, Al. Submitted via Twitter: @glennybrock Always code. In fact, most of the people I’ve heard say this were people who...
I dropped out! White flight city.
Theresa Fichter Council Bluffs, IA Council Bluffs, IA in the early eighties was mostly white. Middle class and drugs and alcohol was a problem in...
White flight and racism trump integration.
Robert Robillard Roanoke, VA I teach at a white flight private school that now aims to be diverse. Another element that must be as true...
