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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11 s month-long look at the past, present and future of Black history continues with an exploration of redlining and how the foundation of housing inequity was built here at home. In Durham, part of that story can be told through ABC11 Anchor Joel Brown s very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durham s Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie Smith Vample. All of them are descendants of Walltown s namesake, George Wall. This is your great great grandfather, George Wall and his second wife, Lily Wall, Manns-Hill said holding up a black and white photograph of Wall and his wife standing in front of his one-story wooden house with a brick chimney. The original homeplace that he built on Onslow Street when he worked at Trinity College before it became Duke University. ....
CBS News Confronting the history of housing discrimination: It s just a remarkable record of exclusion CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil s grandfather became a homeowner in 1953, moving his wife and three children out of a tiny apartment in Manhattan and into a new house in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. It was one of America s growing suburbs. He wasn t alone. After World War II, millions of families made similar moves. Lyndhurst Mayor Robert Giangeruso told Dokoupil that many people moving to Lyndhurst were a part of the working class, compromised of masons, carpenters and farmers. Joe Cofone, a retired police officer and an unofficial town historian, said Lyndhurst could be considered a classic American suburb. One of the best places you could ever imagine to grow up, Cofone said. ....
CHICAGO (WLS) ABC 7, Chicago s Number One station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the long lasting effects of the discriminatory real estate and banking practices of redlining. ABC 7 s Leah Hope moderated this hour-long event available on abc7chicago.com Thursday, February 11 at 2:00 PM. Redlining meant that Black residents, despite having all the necessary collateral and ability to pay, could not secure a home for purchase because of their neighborhood color designation. The historic practice of redlining, with some roots in Chicago s real estate and financial community, had lasting consequences that not only kept Blacks out of desirable neighborhoods, but was instrumental in stifling school integration, opportunities for economic development, corporate development and access to healthcare. ....