Homewood (Pittsburgh)
| Homewood North | |
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| Neighborhood of Pittsburgh | |
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| Coordinates: 40°27′36″N 79°54′00″W / 40.460°N 79.900°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny County |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.434 sq mi (1.12 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,280 |
| • Density | 7,600/sq mi (2,900/km2) |
| Homewood South | |
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| Neighborhood of Pittsburgh | |
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| Coordinates: 40°27′18″N 79°54′00″W / 40.455°N 79.900°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny County |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.398 sq mi (1.03 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 2,344 |
| • Density | 5,900/sq mi (2,300/km2) |
| Homewood West | |
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| Neighborhood of Pittsburgh | |
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| Coordinates: 40°27′36″N 79°54′18″W / 40.460°N 79.905°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Allegheny County |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.199 sq mi (0.52 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 818 |
| • Density | 4,100/sq mi (1,600/km2) |
| ZIP Code | 15206, 15208 |
Homewood is a predominantly African American neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, officially divided into three neighborhoods: Homewood North, Homewood South and Homewood West.
Homewood is bordered on the southwest by the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway which follows the old Pennsylvania Railroad line toward downtown Pittsburgh.
Homewood is located in the easternmost part of Pittsburgh, bordered on the east by East Hills, on the west by Larimer, on the North by Lincoln-Lemington Belmar, and on the south by North Point Breeze.
Homewood was founded in 1832 by Judge William Wilkins (U.S. politician). It was later annexed by the city of Pittsburgh on December 1, 1884. Homewood in the beginning held mainly estates for the wealthy; Homewood was also the Pittsburgh residence of industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Thomas M. Carnegie until the late 1880s. Starting in the 1910s, Irish, Italian, German, and upper middle class black families started moving into Homewood due to the low-cost of housing. This caused Homewood to become more diverse. At first relations between the white and black residents of Homewood were quite good, it was not until later that tensions between the different ethnic groups became more strained.
In the 1950s the city claimed land in the Lower Hill District for the Civic Arena, and in the process, displaced 8,000 people. Most of them were less affluent blacks who then settled in rental apartments in Homewood, creating a large disparity in the number of blacks to whites in the region. This sudden influx of black residents caused a lot of the white middle class to move away from Homewood, creating a population shift from 22% black in 1950 to 66% black in 1960. As a result of the area being predominantly African-American, it was greatly affected by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April 1968, whose murder caused riots in Homewood. The rioters caused great damage to local businesses, severely crippling the business district there.
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