Contract selling: $500 million “legally stolen” from Chicago’s African-Americans

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A look back at the Contract Buyers League, a group of African-American homeowners who organized to end the practice of contract buying, where black homeowners were enticed to buy their houses on “contract” from real estate speculators, who continued to own the mortgage on the property.


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