A new exhibit from the Glencoe Historical Society explores the town’s beginnings as an unusually integrated community and takes a stark look at how the Black members of that community were pushed out. BlackVoicesWTTW
From their start, North Shore suburbs have almost all been predominantly White. The town of Glencoe was an exception in its earliest days — though it has not remained so in the 150 years of its existence. In the exhibit “,” the Glencoe Historical Society explores the town’s beginnings as an unusually integrated community and takes a stark look at how the Black members of that community were pushed out.
Indeed, multiple Black families had settled in the community, opened businesses, created churches and sent their children to fully integrated schools from the 1880s to the 1920s. Much of their history is depicted in the exhibit’s first gallery. In a second gallery, in a separate building, the exhibit explores the reasons why that tide turned.
Carter said some aspects of Glencoe’s layouts had always struck her as odd, like the layout and location of a Glencoe park, so she wasn’t surprised when the research showed the local leaders claimed eminent domain as a way to push out many Black homeowners to create that park.
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