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Black Housing, White Finance: African American Housing And Home Ownership In Evanston, Illinois, Before 1940 - Statistical Data Included
Journal of Social History, Winter, 1999 by Andrew Wiese
(72.) Spencer interview by Sharon F. Patton; Spencer interview by Wayne Watson; Watson interview; Mrs. E. Edgarton Hart interview by Glenna Johnson, May 20, 1974, transcript (EHS).
(73.) There is no concrete evidence that any of the larger white lenders in west Evanston lent directly to an employee or family member thereof, however it is not unlikely. A tribute written for William Dyche, president of the State Bank and Trust Company, suggests the existence of that practice as well as the ways paternalism earned esteem within the white community. The writer claimed that Dyche's door was always open, whether to college presidents or "a former colored housekeeper trying to make a mortgage on some property." Dyche did not make any of the loans sampled, but his bank made 30 (of 230) loans in the sample. George Dalgety, "Mr Dyche's Career Packed with Achievement," Evanston Review, August 23, 1934, pps. 22-23; Torrens Deeds Dockets 240E, 241, 589D. None of the other lenders was known to have employed black servants. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, Census Schedules, Evanston, Illinois.
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(74.) Philpott, The Slum and the Ghetto, 204.
(75.) Ibid., 116, 244-69.
(76.) Black population in Evanston grew from 2,522 to 4,938 between 1920 and 1930. Meanwhile builders erected 427 new units of housing. At four persons per household, these new units offered room for 1,700 persons, 71 percent of total population growth. Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, Census of Housing, Volume I, Block Statistics, 8; Leonard, "Paternalism and the Rise of a Black Community."
(77.) Cora Watson interview; William H. Gill, Obituary, Evanston Review, July 27, 1961, p. 96.
(78.) Martin interview.
(79.) Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, 99--102.
(80.) Blumberg and Lalli, "Little Ghettoes," 124.
(81.) Wiese, "The Other Suburbanites."
(82.) For Englewood, see New York Age, April 16, 1921, p. 8. On Yonkers, see Bruce D. Haynes, "The Social Construction of a Black Suburban Community: A Case Study of Runyon Heights, Yonkers, New York, 1912-1994," (PhD. diss., City University of New York, 1995). For Pasadena, see James E. Crimi, "The Social Status of the Negro in Pasadena, California," (Masters Thesis, University of Southern California, 1941), 15--18; also, City of Pasadena, Department of Planning and Permitting, Building Permits, 1904-1921 (Hale Building, Pasadena, California); 1920 home ownership rate is based on a sample of 157 black households (48 percent of black residents) in manuscript census schedules. Fourteenth Census of the U.S., Census of Population: 1920, Census Schedules, Pasadena, California, Enumeration Districts 504--535.
(83.) Earl F. Cartland, "A Study of the Negroes Living in Pasadena," (Masters Thesis, Whittier College, 1948), 10; Leona and Garfield Lee interview, audio-tape, 1984, Black History Project, (Pasadena Historical Society, Pasadena, California); "City of Pasadena Architectural and Historical Inventory: Survey Area Sixteen, Brenner Park," Feb., 1983, Urban Conservation Program, City of Pasadena, Department of Building and Permitting (Hale Building, Pasadena, California), 211--13, 216; For loans to blacks in Pasadena, see for example, Grant Deed, Leoni M. Twomey to Robert and Mandy Morgan, October 9, 1916, Document 22, Book 6337, p. 303, Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds (Los Angeles County Recorder-Registrar, Norwalk, California), 44.
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