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The "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 slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not white flight or black culture but a widespread system of legal and financial exploitation.

Beryl Satter is the author of Each Mind a Kingdom and the chair of the Department of History at Rutgers University in Newark. She was raised in Chicago, Skokie, and Evanston, Illinois, and is a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and the Yale American Studies program. For her work in progress on Family Properties, Satter received a J. Anthony Lukas citation. She lives in New York City.

Introduction: The Story of My Father	p. 1

Jewish Lawndale	p. 17
The Noose around Black Chicago	p. 36
Justice in Chicago	p. 64
Reform-Illinois-Style	p. 100
The Liberal Moment and the Death of a Radical	p. 133

King in Chicago	p. 169
The Story of a Building	p. 215
Organizing Lawndale	p. 233
The Big Holdout	p. 272
The Federal Trials	p. 320
Conclusion	p. 372
Notes	p. 385
Acknowledgments	p. 471
Index	p. 475
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Family Properties How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America

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

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