Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago

by Gartz, Linda

Book Overview

Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago's West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz's parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631523201
• ISBN13: 9781631523205
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"