ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the short-term question of what difference it would make if businesses owned by whites were transferred to black owners, and the long-term question of whether local solutions can be effective in dealing with the problem of black unemployment or underemployment. Information on small businesses in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., was gathered as part of a 1970 follow-up to a study of small businesses carried out in 1966 and 1968. The original survey was part of a larger study of crime and law enforcement in police precincts in these three cities. The Chicago areas are very similar to those in Boston. In Fillmore, the ghetto area, the percentage of whites dropped from 53% in 1960 to 10% in 1970. The Washington, D.C., ghetto area extends northward from S Street to a little over 2 miles from the Maryland border.
