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Burlington Commission on Human Rights, 1964-1965

Report on Urban Renewal Programs and Their Effects on Racial Minority Group Housing in Three Iowa Cities - Page 16

3. Sioux City

Slightly more than two percent of Sioux City's approximate population of 89,000 are members of minority racial groups. According to the 1960 census, there were 1,221 Negroes, 533 American Indians, and 96 members of other nonwhite races (chiefly Orientals) in this city. But the percentage of nonwhite population affected by urban renewal projects is much higher than the percentage of the population as a whole. In fact, nearly 50 percent of the families displaced or to be displaced by urban renewal and similar projects are members of minority racial groups.

When the Iowa Advisory Committee held its meeting in Sioux City in May of 1963, the city already had been involved in two projects that had entailed considerable dislocation of peoples, and was preparing to become involved in a third. The construction of Interstate Highway No. 29 in late 1958 along the Waterfront Route through the city involved the displacement of approximately 139 families. no breakdown of this figure into white and nonwhite families is available. Whatever assistance was provided for the displaced families was nongovernmental in character--chiefly through social welfare agencies.

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14. Information for this section of the report was gathered from minutes of the Advisory Committee meeting and from the following documents prepared in connection with the Mary Tregalia Project:

Sioux City Reports on Relocation, City of Sioux City, Ia., City Council, 1951. 10 pp.
Sioux City Reports on Relocation. Second Annual Report. Urban Renewal Division, Department of Building and Development, 1963. 17 pp.
Report on Minority Group Considerations, Relocation Program, and Relocation Report R 223. Urban Renewal Division, Department of Building and Development, 1962. 47 pp.


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3. Sioux City Slightly more than two percent of Sioux City's approximate population of 89,000 are members of minority racial groups. According to the 1960 census, there were 1,221 Negroes, 533 American Indians, and 96 members of other nonwhite races (chiefly Orientals) in this city. But the percentage of nonwhite population affected by urban renewal projects is much higher than the percentage of the population as a whole. In fact, nearly 50 percent of the families displaced or to be displaced by urban renewal and similar projects are members of minority racial groups. When the Iowa Advisory Committee held its meeting in Sioux City in May of 1963, the city already had been involved in two projects that had entailed considerable dislocation of peoples, and was preparing to become involved in a third. The construction of Interstate Highway No. 29 in late 1958 along the Waterfront Route through the city involved the displacement of approximately 139 families. no breakdown of this figure into white and nonwhite families is available. Whatever assistance was provided for the displaced families was nongovernmental in character--chiefly through social welfare agencies. __________ 14. Information for this section of the report was gathered from minutes of the Advisory Committee meeting and from the following documents prepared in connection with the Mary Tregalia Project: Sioux City Reports on Relocation, City of Sioux City, Ia., City Council, 1951. 10 pp. Sioux City Reports on Relocation. Second Annual Report. Urban Renewal Division, Department of Building and Development, 1963. 17 pp. Report on Minority Group Considerations, Relocation Program, and Relocation Report R 223. Urban Renewal Division, Department of Building and Development, 1962. 47 pp. 16