A Lot Of People Fell By The Way
Speculators in North Lawndale , and at the edge of the black ghettos, knew there was money to be made off white panic. They resorted to block-busting-spooking whites into selling cheap before the neighborhood became black. They would hire a black woman to walk up and down the street with a stroller. Or they’d hire someone to call a number in the neighborhood looking for Johnny Mae. (mehr …)