Meacham Park
Meacham Park

Author: Lonnie R. Speer

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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Wedged among St. Louis County's southwest suburbs is a totally unique community that has struggled since the 1890s to preserve its own heritage. Bounded by the municipalities of Kirkwood on the north and west, Crestwood on the east, and Sunset Hills on the south, the community of Meacham Park has been one of the few predominantly black communities in history to resist urban renewal. Its strong ethnic identity has been preserved and reinforced through the years as other municipalities have incorporated around it.

Race, Place, and Suburban Policing
Race, Place, and Suburban Policing

Author: Andrea S. Boyles

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 052095808X

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While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.

The Broken Heart of America
The Broken Heart of America

Author: Walter Johnson

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1541646061

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A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.

Meacham Park
Meacham Park

Author: Saint Louis County (Mo.). Department of Planning

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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St. Louis:
St. Louis:

Author: John A. Wright Sr.

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439631530

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Since the founding of St. Louis, African Americans have lived in communities throughout the area. Although St. Louis' 1916 "Segregation of the Negro Ordinance" was ruled unconstitutional, African Americans were restricted to certain areas through real estate practices such as steering and red lining. Through legal efforts in the court cases of Shelley v. Kraemer in 1948, Jones v. Mayer in 1978, and others, more housing options became available and the population dispersed. Many of the communities began to decline, disappear, or experience urban renewal.