Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation — Season 1, Episode 1: The Color Tax
Documentary • 58 min • 1 season, 4 episodes
Episode synopsis
Black families paid premium prices and could lose their home for missing a single payment.
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.