Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation — Season 1, Episode 3: A Million in Captivity
Documentary • 57 min • 1 season, 4 episodes
Episode synopsis
The CHA initially proposed integrated public housing, but after backlash, maintained segregation.
About Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation
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.