POLI 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article : Blockbusting, Fundamental Interaction, White Supremacy
31 Oct 2015
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1930s-1960s black people across the country were cut of legitimate home mortgage market. Mortgage industry racist methods of excluding black people and segregated living. Black were exploited by whites leaders and property owners for money and for sport. Contract buyers league collection of black homeowners on chicago"s south and west sides. Unsegregated american see poverty across the country with no bias toward skin color. 150 years of slavery was seen as outrageous that the whites owed the blacks. North of the u. s legislatures, mayors, civic associations. Black lives were rightful targets remained as an ideal in broader society. White dominance inert past of the u. s. The founders who founded the independent and freedom loving country ironically had their own slaves. Did not make the connection between the two. In the colony enslaved africans were cheap sources of labor. American law worked to reduce black people"s rights and status.
