Cairo, Illinois

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Excerpt from Cairo, Illinois: A Symbol of Racial Polarization: Recommendations Based on the Cairo Hearing, March 23-25, 1972Although in the past few years the focus of attention has been on the city of Cairo, that city must be seen as part of a larger economically depressed region encompassing several counties in southern Illinois. Thus, any discussion of Cairo must, of necessity, reflect the situation in the surrounding area.Despite its advantageous location at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Cairo has experienced a steady economic decline since 1930. As jobs were lost, largely due to the mechanization of the river trade industry and new industrial and commercial opportunities failed to materialize, the population decline accelerated, resulting in a loss of 50 percent of the population between 1950 and 1970. According to the 1970 census, Cairo had residents of whom percent) were black. The lack of economic opportunities in the area has caused most of the young people, as well as many of the older residents of both races to leave the city and has led to a proportionate increase in the number of low-income families and the elderly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.