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San Francisco’s Black Exodus

By Jamilah King


Decades after the city displaced Black residents, organizers fight to bring them back home.
August 12, 2009


It’s been 33 years, but Ed Donaldson can still see the anxious look on his mother’s face when she was told she had to move. It was 1976, and Donaldson was only 10—the youngest of three children—when the family received word from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency that they were being kicked out of their Hunter’s Point apartment.

Donaldson’s mother decided to use the opportunity to purchase a home—no easy feat for a single Black woman in the 1970s. After months of racist- and sexist-tinged questioning by loan officials (was she having more children? where was her husband?), she secured a loan for a house she still lives in today.

“We landed on our feet, but so many other families didn’t,â€