![]() ![]() ![]() Part family story and part urban history, Family Properties is the riveting account of a city in crisis, involving unscrupulous slumlords and speculators pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney?the author?s father? who launched a crusade against the profiteers. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true cause of the city?s black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: a widespread institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. 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. 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 Post ![]()
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