Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America


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“Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North.”—David Garrow, The Washington PostThe “promised land” for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation’s worst ghettos. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city’s blac… More >>

Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America