The Color Tax

Wed, Apr 17, 2024
While the white middle class was benefiting from policies that promoted their home equity, Black families were forced to purchase residences via contract sales, paying for homes that they could lose after missing just a single payment.
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The Chicago Plan

Wed, Apr 24, 2024
As Social Darwinist thinking spread, a leading Chicago group declared that introducing Blacks into a white community devalued property. Black families who dared to move into white communities often faced house bombings.
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A Million in Captivity
A Million in Captivity tells the story of the intentional creation of a vast spatial gap in Black and white experience in the late 1950s and 1960s.
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We've Found the Enemy and It's Not Us
An interracial group of working-class homeowners on Chicago's west side fights unscrupulous realtors and bank redlining, leading them to Washington, D.C., where they force the passage of groundbreaking legislation.
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