More info on Eastwick here: segregationbydesign.com/phil…

"...also maintained 40 churches and an animated community hub along Eastwick Avenue. Residents were generally self-sufficient: 72% owned their own homes, and many harvested their own food."

Despite the gov.’s racially-based disinvestment, Eastwick survived and grew as a tight-knight community. From @schuylkillcorps: “[By the 1950s], Eastwick was home to 278 businesses and 11 factories, which employed many nearby residents. The neighborhood also... [continued].

Earlier, during the 1930s Eastwick had been redlined, meaning the federal government had deemed it officially unworthy for investment. This was because, as official comments noted, there was an “infestation of undesirable racial elements,” as the population was “80% Negro."

These aerial images show the approximate locations of the photos in the previous post.

When the RDA demolished the neighborhood in the 50s, they had promised to rebuild an equal number of units, and to do so in a racially integrated fashion. They did not follow through. Graphic from @Interface_LLC