Concord Park, Pennsylvania

Concord Park
Neighborhood
Concord Park Location in Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 40°07′52″N74°58′33″W / 40.1312°N 74.9757°W / 40.1312; -74.9757
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Census-designated place	Trevose, 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]

Gallery

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  Concord Park Homes brochure
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  Concord Park brochure community description
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See also

• Greenbelt Knoll
• Morris Milgram
• Housing discrimination in the United States

References

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

• 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