Altgeld Gardens, a 1,498 units consisting of low-income two-story row houses on 190 acres of land was built adjacent to the Calumet River water system by the Federal government between 1943-45 purposely for black war industry workers, southern…

Sixteen months after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, Hal Baron watched administrators riddle it with loopholes. Without immediate and decisive action, he argued, the U.S. would consign the new act to the same ineffective fate as that of…