In the event, many all-white suburbs were incorporated to the cities they had fled.

As it happened, our family is white, and we got to go home to our all-white suburb, although without the apology my father demanded.

We go to Hillbrow, the once all-white suburb where 40 years ago I had a bachelor flat in a brand-new high-rise block.

Many all-white suburbs were eventually annexed to the cities their residents had left.

Reminded me of people moving to Atlanta because it's supposed to be the black Mecca and then running to buy a house in an all-white suburb.

The book's saddest moment is when the union between their ideals and their lives snaps and they find themselves moving to an all-white suburb.

Longstanding racial tensions between Detroit, the nation's largest black-majority city, and its nearly all-white suburbs have hurt the metropolitan region's cultural life.

Racial issues also divide the city from the nearly all-white suburbs.

A vast movement of blacks from the center city areas where they traditionally lived toward the previously all-white suburbs has taken place in virtually every American city.

But the almost all-white suburbs will have none of it.