Journalist Natalie Y. Moore grew up in Chatham on Chicago’s South Side, “a solid black middle-class neighborhood” where her college-educated parents worked as a teacher and a Shell Oil middle manager. In 1986, the family agreed to be interviewed and photographed for a Chicago Sun-Times feature story about viewers of “The Cosby Show.”
“In the tradition of being a good, upstanding Negro, my dad wanted to present a positive image in the news media by showing how we lived accordingly in black middle-class-dom,” Moore writes in “The South Side,” her ambitious study of one city’s legacy of segregation.
This book cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows, "The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation," by Natalie Y. Moore. St. Martin's Press via AP
