Chicago Housing Injustice

Institutional and personal racism kept blacks segregated and paying artificially high prices for vastly substandard housing. This prompted an open housing movement when these photographs were taken in 1966-1967 in and near Chicago. This problem pervaded the nation. The last four photographs were taken as a group arrived and began demonstrating for open housing in a Chicago suburb. The Black Lives Matter Movement has revived discussions about this problem that was taking place more than a half century ago and before.