How Your City Came to Have a Black Side of Town

It Wasn't a Coincidence, it Was Municipal Planning

Burns United Methodist Church — Des Moines By C. A. Tucker — Wiki Commons

If you live in a mid-sized city in the United States, chances are there is a Black side of town. Of course, there may be exceptions, such as West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Iowa, which the census says are the areas with the largest share of white residents in America. But…