Jack Bauer said:
[As industrialization and westward expansion continued, white elites supported the proliferation of national parks in response to urban expansion.
In their eyes, cities were "dirty" and filled with people of color and immigrants,]
Did this lady check the demographics of Northern Industrial cities in the late 1800s and early 20th century?
Those immigrants she speaks of were of course overwhelming from Europe.
"By 1920
Detroit became the fourth largest city in the US. While the city's population remained over
90 percent white""
Chicago population in 1920 was 2,701,705 people. The city had a Black population of 109,000 people (
4.1% of the total)."
"
Pittsburgh's black population increased to 37,700 in 1920 (
6.4% of the total)"
"New York City had a population of 5.6 million people in 1920. 152,467 were
black (2.71% of the total)"