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08-13-2009, 05:22 PM #1
ColorLines: San Francisco is trying to get Blacks to return
http://colorlines.com/article.php?ID=580
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.
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