Perpetual educational inequality : an historical analysis of the Germantown community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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2002
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Haverford College. Department of History
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The Germantown community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was founded as a German settlement in the late seventeenth century and for centuries was a largely "suburban"-- or even rural-- environment inhabited by almost exclusively people of European descent. However, the twentieth century saw such a large influx of black residents that at the end of the twentieth century there were few whites remaining. This paper examines the social and cultural forces that turned a white, suburban enclave into a predominantly black ghetto and focuses on the importance of educational inequalities [black vs. white] as one of the major contributors to the community's present state of near despair.
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