GPP 150AC Lecture 3: Reparations
27 May 2016
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The men who peddled contracts in north lawndale would sell homes at inflated prices and then evict families who could not pay taking their down payment and their monthly installments as profit. Then they"d bring in another black family, rinse, and repeat. On the maps, green areas, rated a, indicated in demand neighborhoods that, as one appraiser put it, lacked a single foreigner or negro. these neighborhoods were considered excellent prospects for insurance. Neighborhoods where black people lived were rated d . The lives of black americans are better than they were half a century ago. The humiliation of whites only signs are gone. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere. Quaker robert pleasants emancipated his 78 slaves, granted them 350 acres, and later built a school on their property and provided for their education.
