Contract Buyers League--an excerpt from \ from bari did Watch Video
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Description: The Contract Buyers League was a landmark civil rights effort in Chicago in the 1960's. It is the story of resistance to bank red-lining, profiteering slumlords, sleazy blockbusting, the destruction of neighborhoods, racist federal housing policies, and complicit local government. n The exploitative practices we described in our film are making a comeback, and the lessons of this little-known struggle are now being studied by leading activists and scholars. Beryl Satter wrote a 2010 history of
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