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Concord Park, Pennsylvania

Coordinates: 40°07′52″N 74°58′33″W / 40.1312°N 74.9757°W / 40.1312; -74.9757
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Concord Park
Neighborhood
Concord Park is located in Pennsylvania
Concord Park
Concord Park
Location in Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 40°07′52″N 74°58′33″W / 40.1312°N 74.9757°W / 40.1312; -74.9757
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
Census-designated placeTrevose, Pennsylvania
ZIP Code
19053
First Issue of Concordance Newsletter

Concord Park is a residential neighborhood in the Trevose section of Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, originally established as an intentional racially integrated community in 1954 by Morris Milgram,[1][2] a pioneering social activist and civil rights trailblazer who believed Black people should have the same access to housing as whites.[3][4][5]

Concord Park Homes were "the first planned open occupancy homes for sale by a builder determined to build only integrated housing; 139 three and four-bedroom homes were sold and occupied by 55 percent white families and 45 percent Negro families."[6] Some of the early homeowners included interracial couples, communists, and other nonconformists.[7]

The community's origin and history[8] were featured at Bensalem Township's 325th anniversary[9] in 2017 at Growden Mansion and on the Mayor's Show.[10]

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References

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  1. ^ Gelder, Lawrence Van (1997-06-26). "Morris Milgram, 81; Built Interracial Housing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  2. ^ "Morris Milgram". Rutgers University Alumni Association. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  3. ^ "Morris Milgram papers 2176". www2.hsp.org. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  4. ^ DiGiovanni, Anthony. "LibGuides: 20th-Century Collections: Home". hsp.libguides.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  5. ^ "Bucks County, Pennsylvania". Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  6. ^ "My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, July 15, 1958". www2.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  7. ^ "The Secret History of the Suburbs". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  8. ^ "10-18 Concord Park PowerPoint_revised.pdf" (PDF). Dropbox. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  9. ^ "History". BENSALEM TOWNSHIP. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  10. ^ The Mayor's Show- Concord Park, retrieved 2022-10-21

Further reading

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  • Kolson Hurley, Amanda (2019). Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City. Belt Publishing. ISBN 978-1948742368. - case studies of six unusual suburbs