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Author Linda Gartz uses letters and diaries from her landlord parents to explore how federal policies from the 1940s-1990s created the segregated Chicago of today.
Learn about the federal government’s lending policy that segregated America and its impact on the author’s community and family as recorded in long-hidden letters and diaries. Author Linda Gartz's landlord parents nurtured tenants and buildings on Chicago’s West Side from 1948-1994 all the while documenting their work-a-day world, the 1960s racial changes, riots, and aftermath.
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