Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170205:02:39:00
Called madison, illinois. it was a white middle class community and a developer built nice homes and the african american economic class with good jobs came down and bought the homes. >> there was an attempt to make integration work despite white fears, the crime rate did not go up and school standards remained high. as i reported in 1997, white flight took hold. >> it's hard and bitter that when you think you reached a plateau, you achieved something, they still -- you are still not accepted. no matter what. >> why can't black families and white families live together? >> as much as people wa...