“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.” ChicagoWhite SupremacySegregationBlack HistoryMortgageHome OwnershipChicago HistoryIllinois History Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.” ChicagoAmerican HistoryIntegrationBlack HistoryUs HistoryJewish HistoryInterracialChicago HistoryIllinois History Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates