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A dream foreclosed : black America and the fight for a place to call home /

"Real-life stories of how banks are ravaging the country--particularly African American communities--and how some families have joined together to fight back. The ongoing economic crisis has created one of the longest and largest mass displacements in U.S. history. While profiting from governme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottesdiener, Laura
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Zuccotti Park Press, 2013.
Series:Occupied Media pamphlet series.
Subjects:
Mortgages > United States.
Banks and banking > United States > 21st century.
Foreclosure > United States > 21st century.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Home ownership > United States > 21st century.
United States > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Housing.
Housing > United States > Finance.
Mortgage loans > United States.
Protest movements > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • The dream
  • One hundred acres of houses
  • The house on the wrong side of town
  • The boy who was fast
  • As good as rats
  • The explosion
  • A ten-year crime spree
  • Lord, I am sinking
  • Where they going to put all these people?
  • Everything was everywhere
  • The fight
  • We are the . . .
  • Call off the dogs
  • I will not go back
  • Liberated
  • The story of my life / by Jajuanna Walker
  • Epilogue.