The US Housing Act of 1954 provided funding for public housing, giving preferential treatment to families that would be relocated for slum eradication or revitalization. The city was also competing to ensure the coming Interstate Highway System would include Chattanooga.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Cameron Hill was one of the toniest addresses in Chattanooga, a bastion of high society populated in large part by transplanted Northern families after the...

More than 40 years since federal civil rights and fair housing laws were passed, most Chattanooga neighborhoods are shedding their segregated pasts and becoming more diverse.

The Westside Redevelopment Plan designates 407 acres bound by the Tennessee River for “slum clearing.” The plan includes reshaping the topography of the area for optimum vehicular access and relocating over 800 families in the Westside.

Jun 22, 2012 · Chattanooga was very fortunate after the Civil War in that it experienced no outbreak of riots like that in Memphis 1-3 May 1866. In that violence, 46 blacks and 2 whites were killed, 75 other...

East Lake Courts was constructed in a “restrained Colonial Revival Style” (Van West, p. 138) containing 437 units on 35 acres. The total cost for East Lake (White only) and nearby College Hill Courts (Black only) was $3.8 million.

Mar 25, 2013 · In 1905, the black community of Chattanooga and its suburbs boycotted the trolley companies in protest against segregation of its cars. The effort was spearheaded by Randolph Miller, editor of...

Jan 17, 2024 · Chattanooga might look like a peaceful city from the vistas afforded at Lookout Mountain, but down on the streets, crime is all too common. Violent crime is pretty bad across the board, with Chattanooga reporting 166 rapes and 24 murders in 2022, the fourth highest and 14th highest rates statewide, respectively.

Chattanooga Thru 1930 (764 alt., 119,798 pop.) lies near the border of Georgia on the sharp Moccasin Bend of the Tennessee River, in a valley walled by Missionary Ridge on the east, Signal Mountain to the northwest, and Lookout Mountain to the southwest.

Jul 26, 2012 · Blue Goose Hollow was a slum north of where W. 6th St. (W. MLK Blvd.) came over Cameron Hill. It began as a company housing for workers at Roane Iron Works and is famous for being the birthplace of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith.