Concord Park, Pennsylvania
Concord Park | |
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Neighborhood | |
  Concord Park Location in Pennsylvania | |
| Coordinates: 40°07′52″N 74°58′33″W / 40.1312°N 74.9757°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Pennsylvania |
| Census-designated place | Trevose, Pennsylvania |
| ZIP Code | 19053 |
Concord Park is a residential neighborhood in the Trevose section of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, originally established as an intentional racially integrated community in 1954 by Morris Milgram,[1][2] a pioneering social activist and civil rights trailblazer who believed Black people should have the same access to housing as whites.[3][4][5]
Concord Park Homes were "the first planned open occupancy homes for sale by a builder determined to build only integrated housing; 139 three and four-bedroom homes were sold and occupied by 55 percent white families and 45 percent Negro families."[6] Some of the early homeowners included interracial couples, communists, and other nonconformists.[7]
The community's origin and history[8] were featured at Bensalem Township's 325th anniversary[9] in 2017 at Growden Mansion and on the Mayor's Show.[10]
Gallery
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Concord Park brochure community description -
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1997-06-26). "Morris Milgram, 81; Built Interracial Housing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ "Morris Milgram". Rutgers University Alumni Association. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ "Morris Milgram papers 2176". www2.hsp.org. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ^ DiGiovanni, Anthony. "LibGuides: 20th-Century Collections: Home". hsp.libguides.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ^ "Bucks County, Pennsylvania". Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ^ "My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, July 15, 1958". www2.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ^ "The Secret History of the Suburbs". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
- ^ "10-18 Concord Park PowerPoint_revised.pdf" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ "History". BENSALEM TOWNSHIP. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ The Mayor's Show- Concord Park, retrieved 2022-10-21
Further reading
[edit]- Kolson Hurley, Amanda (2019). Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City. Belt Publishing. ISBN 978-1948742368. - case studies of six unusual suburbs