Redlined
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Redlined

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

  1. 319 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Redlined

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

About this book

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 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 cracks and withers.
After her parents’ deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents’ marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz’s discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter’s fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2018
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781631523212
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Prologue: The Attic
  8. Chapter 1: On the Street Where We Live
  9. Chapter 2: Nothing from Nothing Is Nothing
  10. Chapter 3: If We Won’t Be Happy, Who Will?
  11. Chapter 4: Madness and Marriage
  12. Chapter 5: Resistance and Devotion
  13. Chapter 6: Death
  14. Chapter 7: Shock
  15. Chapter 8: The Best-Laid Plans
  16. Chapter 9: Redlined
  17. Chapter 10: Civil Rights
  18. Chapter 11: Flipped
  19. Chapter 12: Blockbusters
  20. Chapter 13: A New Start
  21. Chapter 14: The Long Goodbyes
  22. Chapter 15: Travelin’ Man
  23. Chapter 16: Wanna Trade Places?
  24. Chapter 17: Tenth Anniversary
  25. Chapter 18: A Vision of Decline
  26. Chapter 19: Barbara
  27. Chapter 20: Thief, Robber, Crook
  28. Chapter 21: Travels with Dad
  29. Chapter 22: The Asylum
  30. Chapter 23: Black and White
  31. Chapter 24: Brothers and Sisters
  32. Chapter 25: Not Unhappy
  33. Chapter 26: Saturday Night Burger
  34. Chapter 27: The Tether and the Dream
  35. Chapter 28: Up in Flames
  36. Chapter 29: An Island in a Sea of Destruction
  37. Chapter 30: Be Still, I Am Thy God
  38. Chapter 31: A New Life
  39. Chapter 32: Unraveling
  40. Chapter 33: Riots Redux
  41. Chapter 34: Convulsions
  42. Chapter 35: News from the Front
  43. Chapter 36: Sexual Politics
  44. Chapter 37: Moving On
  45. Chapter 38: Disgraced
  46. Chapter 39: A New Roommate
  47. Chapter 40: No End in Sight
  48. Chapter 41: Home Alone
  49. Chapter 42: Mom’s World
  50. Chapter 43: End of an Era
  51. Chapter 44: Dad’s World
  52. Chapter 45: A Convergence of Change
  53. Chapter 46: Not of Our Choosing
  54. Chapter 47: Reconciliation
  55. Notes
  56. Photo Credits
  57. Acknowledgments
  58. About the Author

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