Urban Blight New York has an area known as the Lower East Side, where incomes are low and resources meager. In St Louis, city planners identify a few areas that might be restored by demolishing and rebuilding. The tear-down is relatively easy, but the rebuilding is frustratingly difficult. Highrise apartments are built in one area, but fail to attract new residents, and are also torn down.

	Now What? Urban renewal efforts in St Louis reveal the reality that such projects seem doomed to fail. The initial phase levels a large area of warehouses on the riverfront. But the project stalls after demolition is complete (top left). Planners next target a couple of Black neighborhoods, with much the same result. All the money is spent buying up land, and purchasing buildings, which are then reduced to rubble. Private developers don't find the empty sites attractive, so they lie vacant for years (bottom right).
	Festering Problem Blacks everywhere continue to line in an apartheid world, kept carefully separated from Whites by the still-entrenched practice of segregation. Blacks are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their exclusion from mainstream America. The Civil Rights movement has not yet properly begun, but a small black woman named Rosa Parks gets the ball rolling in deeply racist Montgomery, Alabama. When instructed to take a seat at the back of the bus, with other Blacks, she refuses to move (center top).