Redlined by Linda Gartz - 9781631523205

RedlinedA Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago\nAuthor(s): Linda Gartz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Simon And Schuster Group USA, United States\nImprint: She Writes Press\nISBN-13: 9781631523205, 978-1631523205\nSynopsis\nSet 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 neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape - even as their own relationship crac.