[Ads-l] Antedating of "White Flight"

[Shapiro, Fred]

white flight (OED 1956)

1953 Milwaukee Sentinel 1 Nov. 31/4 (GenealogyBank)

Sheer need for housing pushed some non-white families into neighborhoods where none had been before.  In some cases, panic and a "great white flight" followed.

Fred Shapiro

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