Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Contract Selling, 2016

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Here is a recent article talking about the practice of contract selling rearing it's ugly head again in 2016. Buyers please beware of wh...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Exhibit Opening - 7/16

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The Contract Buyers League Exhibit Clyde Ross, Jack Macnamara, and Jeff McCarter North Lawndale Historical and Cultural Society ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Ongoing Exhibition

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For those interested in viewing the Contract Buyers League exhibit, beginning on Tuesday, July 21, it will be at Neighborhood Housing Servic...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Exhibition Opening

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  The Contract Buyers League exhibition is opening this Thursday, July 16th!  Please join us at the Homan Square Community Center ...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Contract Selling Diagrams

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Some diagrams outlining the exploitative contract selling process that occurred.  A preview of the upcoming exhibit, opening at the Homan ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Ongoing Exhibit

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Thank you everyone who has taken some time to read this blog and for those that dig deeper into the history of the CBL, North Lawndale, and ...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Chicago Tonight - August 7, 2014

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Mr. Ross is featured on Chicago Tonight discussing the CBL's history in Chicago.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Case for Reparations

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This article was the feature story of the June issue of the Atlantic Monthly by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  It's been out for over a month, but ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The Chicago Freedom Movement and the CBL

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With the recent 50th anniversary for the March on Washington, I’d like to post about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s relation to contract sellin...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

More CBL Homes Today!

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(All photographs by John Wolf.) I spent another afternoon recently going around part of the neighborhood to photograph CBL ho...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

CBL Addresses, Today!

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Over the past several months of collecting information on the CBL, I have been compiling a roster of CBL members and addresses.  Many of the...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Emergence of Exploitative Contract Selling, Part 4: The Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977

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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 are two key acts of federal legislation that were passed to com...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Great Migration and Segregation

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Black Population Change,  North Lawndale outlined in red. ( Source : ProPublica, Housing Segregation: the Great Migration and Beyond b...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Blacks and Jews #2

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This is the second of three clips taken from the documentary  Blacks and Jews .  This clip shows some of the protests and actions of the...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

It is a Small World After All...

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My name is Blaire Lewis, I am a first year doctoral student at the Adler School of Professional Psychology for clinical psychology.   This...
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