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>> anthony: but this was the land of opportunity here and detroit, great cities in the north. >> shirley: it was, then, we were never hungry down in mississippi, we got here depend on welfare whatever and they became alcoholics, abusive to the children and wives and the children came out in the streets just everybody lost control and now it's -- >> anthony: what was chicago like when you arrived? >> shirley: uh, it wasn't as violent. uh, you know, the neighborhoods were communities no vacant lots or families all over, kids in the street. you could go outside and play and not worry about your c...

The worst thing that my family could ever done was left the south, was left mississippi, should have stayed. >> anthony: but this was the land of opportunity here and detroit, great cities in the north. >> shirley: it was, then, we were never hungry down in mississippi, we got here depend on welfare whatever and they became alcoholics, abusive to the children and wives and the children came out in the streets just everybody lost control and now it's -- >> anthony: what was chicago like when you arrived? >> shirley: uh, it wasn't as violent. uh, you know, the neighborhoods were communities no v...

So what age were you when you came to chicago? >> shirley: i was 13. the worst thing that my family could ever done was left the south, was left mississippi, should have stayed. >> anthony: but this was the land of opportunity here and detroit, great cities in the north. >> shirley: it was, then, we were never hungry down in mississippi, we got here depend on welfare whatever and they became alcoholics, abusive to the children and wives and the children came out in the streets and just everybody lost control and now it's -- >> anthony: what was chicago like when you arrived? >> shirley: uh, it...

♪ the way we think abo houston, texas, today is very much stuck in the past. in the late '70s-early '80s, houston was the boom town of popular television and movie imagination -- oil, shipping, nasa and football combined to create a big-spending, big-haired quasi cowboys stereotype that to some extent still lives with us today, even if the reality is different. though the oil is not gone, a massive glut in the mid-'80s sent prices into free fall, more or less killing the city's oil industry. the resulting economic downturn and lower cost of living made houston, however improbably it might ...

Were never hungry down in mississippi, we got here depend on welfare whatever and they became alcoholics, abusive to the children and wives and the children came out in the streets just everybody lost control and now it's -- >> anthony: what was chicago like when you arrived? >> shirley: uh, it wasn't as violent. uh, you know, the neighborhoods were communities no vacant lots or families all over, kids in the street. you could go outside and play and not worry about your children and somewhere and the late '70s early '80s it started to change and become more violent. >> news anchor 1: on july ...