Series · 2024 · Documentary

Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation

Name: Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Linda Kimbrough

★0.0 2024 1 Season TV-MA

How Chicago and its suburbs helped devise the nation’s most sweeping system of racially segregated communities, and how these policies diminished the lives of generations of Black families, creating the vast racial wealth gap that persists to this day.

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Seasons & episodes

1 season · 4 episodes

Episode 01

The Color Tax

Apr 18, 2024 · 58 min

Black families paid premium prices and could lose their home for missing a single payment.

Episode 02

The Chicago Plan

Apr 25, 2024 · 58 min

Blacks who dared to move into white communities faced ostracism, vandalism, and house bombings.

Episode 03

A Million in Captivity

May 2, 2024 · 57 min

The CHA initially proposed integrated public housing, but after backlash, maintained segregation.

Episode 04

We Found the Enemy and It's Not Us

May 9, 2024 · 57 min

Working-class homeowners on Chicago's west side fought unscrupulous realtors and bank redlining.

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Synopsis

Documentary

Cast

1 principal cast

Linda Kimbrough

Self - Narrator (voice)

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