newcomer neighborhoods

Poor neighborhoods in the center of the city, close to mills and factories. Once occupants got a little money they moved to peripheral neighborhoods. They are eccentric places, built haphazard, bisected by alleys and overhung by industrial pollution. Although they were areas of filth, crime, and poverty, those funky neighborhoods provided the doorway into the American dream. For black Americans during the Great Migration, newcomer neighborhoods were the beginning and end of options for housing. Segregation created boundaries that were rigidly, and, even violently enforced. (Fullilove, 2004, 24)