Why did Hartford become so segregated by race and class?
Review the online book entitled, On the Line.
http://ontheline.trincoll.edu/
Using evidence from the site, give your reasoning about why Hartford became so segregated by race and class.
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Chapter 3 is about schools, segregation, and housing.
http://ontheline.trincoll.edu/preview-chapter/part-3/
I highly recommend it because it partially explains how Bloomfield became one of the earliest suburbs with black residents.
Hartford became so segregated because of the way people started to organize themselves. We have "zones" and non suprisingly all the safety zones are in the suburbs and all the red light zones are in the urban areas. This already starts to make people divide by where they believe is a safe place to settle. Not only that but, people who cannot afford to live in more expensive areas settle in urban areas where they are more likely to get jobs and have easy access to things.
Another reason Hartford is segregated by race is due to information that Hartford Public High School was called the best secondary education force in the entire region which attracted many students to these areas as well as their families. Considering that your family is predominantly the same race as you plays a factor when you settle in a town.
Lastly, people settle where there is cheap housing. Not only that but if you are being government aided with a place to live and to be provided with basic needs most the time you will be placed in housing with other people with the same needs as yourself therefore, splitting up once again by race generally.
Hartford also became segregated because of education and who could afford it. people who couldnt afford to send their children to good surburban schools so they moved to the city for cheap public education. :)
The people who come to Hartford to work and live try and find others "like them". Ethnic groups often stay together, even if they don't know each other, which divided the City into many different zones and sections. Also, the costs of the housing forced the low-pay workers ot all move there, and most of the workers would be the minorities, thus our current divisions.
The suburbs is a way to get out of the crazy urban life. There are gang violent's that are happen in the urban area and it makes certain races want to leave the city to go to the suburbs where nothing happens really. The black race is known to live in the "ghetto" and the whites live in the suburbs.
I agree with dyllan because many families cant afford to send their kids to a good magnet school in bloomfield. Picking a good public school in the local area will be more cheaper than sending their kids to magnet schools. For housing, the people that have money will go to the suburbs for a nice house. If your trying to save money you will end up going to hartford to get an house or an apt.
Valerie,
You bring up two great points: Hartford High was seen as a pre-emininent high school and Hartford's suburbs had decent, inexpensive housing. Do you have any good quotes, data, or statistics to illustrate this point?
-Mr. Cotto
Dyllan,
Can you point to any evidence from the book to support your claims?
-Mr. Cotto
Ian,
Can you site sections or pages of the On the Line book?
-Mr. Cotto
Jaquan,
Your points might be relevant today, but is there any evidence that "gangs" and "crazy" urban life had something to do with the segregation over the past 100 years?
-Mr. Cotto
i think that hartford became segregated due to how hartford was looked at. it was the city of ct and instead of being looked at as a city we should take pride in they looked at it as the place we do crime in. its also very clear that safety zones are said to be in the suburbes so you divide create this idea in peoples head that they shouldnt care about the place or that they arnt able to fit in with the people in the suburbs.
I agree with Valerie that you are more likley to go to a place that you hear your race in populer in and if you think you can give you child a decent education than your going to go there.
i also agree with Ian ..but were you live has a great deal of impact on were you can find jobs and some people have segragated hartford becouse they dont have as much of a job choice.
Hartford was segregated by race because you tend to see people of color living in the cheaper areas which tend to be in the urban areas. Like in part 3 of the site it was discussing how back in the 1940s the whites weren't allowing blacks to live in public housing in suburbs of West Hartford.
Now a days I think races are more about living in what areas are more safe and also which ones have the cheaper housing prices.
I agree with valerie on people tending to move to cheaper areas and those areas consisting mainly of the same races especially areas that have government aid to live in their houses.
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