The county used eminent domain rights to buy out the black homeowners from 1945-1953.

St. Albans is a neighboring community with many black homeowners.

He and his followers were the first black homeowners in town.

But in many suburban areas, a census analysis suggests, black homeowners are paying higher property taxes than whites on homes of similar value.

"Maybe if they had caught this person right away, all of this attention on the neighborhood never would have happened," said one black homeowner.

The new black homeowners have been funneled into only a few neighborhoods, according to a study released this week.

The new black homeowners also find themselves farther from work.

Many residential blocks are a mix of black, white and Hispanic homeowners.

The $14.5 million is to be divided among black homeowners in Milwaukee's inner city.

It is a wall of racial separation erected in 1940 as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners.