The Chicago Ambassador Praised Redlined by Linda Gartz

The Chicago Ambassador called Redlined by Linda Gartz "A fascinating first-person memoir of how a racist government policy affected West Garfield Park."Here's an excerpt from the review:Most books about Redlining – the government’s racist policy of not giving loans to anyone living in areas where blacks lived that started with The New Deal in 1930s and was enforced until being ruled illegal in 1968 – are academic in nature, filled with stats and charts and while sometimes informative, never get to the toll it took on those who lived through it. Until now. With her wonderfully insightful debut book, Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago, Linda Gartz tells the story of her white family and the effects redlining had on them and their neighborhood, Chicago’s West Garfield Park.For the full review, click here.