Family properties : race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America

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Part family story and part urban history, this work is a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago, and in cities across the nation. The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site o...

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Main Author: Satter, Beryl, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Satter, Mark J., > 1916-1965.
1900-1999
African Americans > Housing > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in housing > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Housing policy > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Relations with Jews.
Lawyers > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Landlords > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
African Americans > Housing.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Discrimination in housing.
Housing policy.
Landlords.
Lawyers.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Zwarten.
Huisvesting.
Discriminatie (sociologie)
Sociale aspecten.
Rassendiskriminierung
Wohnungspolitik
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)
Verenigde Staten.
Schwarze.
Chicago, Ill.
Nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The story of my father
  • Jewish Lawndale
  • The noose around Black Chicago
  • Justice in Chicago
  • Reform--Illinois-style
  • The liberal moment and the death of a radical
  • King in Chicago
  • The story of a building
  • Organizing Lawndale
  • The big holdout
  • The federal trials.

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