War Housing Boom (jan 1, 1939 – jan 1, 1939)
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Development of streetcar suburbs in the southeast section of Ward 7 began attracting middle class whites. Efforts also increased in the mid-twentieth century to provide decent housing for working- and middle-class blacks. Several African American architects designed such housing, including Lewis Giles, Sr., Alonzo Plater, Romulus Archer, and Roscoe Vaughn.
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