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Contract Buying Robbed Black Families In Chicago Of Billions

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Demonstrators protest housing discrimination by Chicago real estate dealers in 1966. A new study says the city's black families lost between $3 billion and $4 billion in wealth because of predatory housing contracts during the 1950s and 1960s. (AP)
Demonstrators protest housing discrimination by Chicago real estate dealers in 1966. A new study says the city's black families lost between $3 billion and $4 billion in wealth because of predatory housing contracts during the 1950s and 1960s. (AP)

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