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Della King didn’t know what she had missed until her husband revealed his most cherished boyhood memory: his parents cheering for him while he played little league baseball.
“[My parents] never showed up for sporting events because they always had to work; my parents had to pay the mortgage,” King, 47, told The Huffington Post. “I never knew parents showed up for those things.”
King’s parents were members of the Contract Buyer’s League, a group of black homeowners in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. The group formed in 1968 to fight discriminatory real estate practices aimed at segregating America’s post-war communities and driving African-American homeowners into predatory lending schemes.
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National Guardsmen stand guard as a young boy pauses from riding his bicycle in the west side neighborhood of Lawndale, Chicago, 1968. The guardsmen were called in to restore order after the…
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