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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago

By Richard W. Wise

Biographies and Memoirs

The year 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood…

Release Date
2020
Length
338 pages
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The year 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood organizer, has been found among the ashes. Why? Who stands to gain?