SVC Forum and Forward Chicago present
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago.


Speaker: Linda Gartz

Many of us have a vague idea of redlining, Chicago's racist lending rules that refused mortgages to anyone living in neighborhoods with even one Black resident. Linda Gartz's parents, Fred and Lil chose to stay in their integrating neighborhood in the '50s & '60s overcoming prejudices and forming relationships with their new Black neighbors. As their landscape sank into devastation, so did their marriage. Linda's memoir delves into personal and political archives to tell her coming-of-age story against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the turbulent fracturing of her redlined community.

Join us as Linda Gartz recounts her experience and outlines Chicago's continuing housing crisis. There will be time for Q&A.

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

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About Linda Gartz
Six-time Emmy-honored Linda Gartz is a documentary producer. Her documentaries and TV productions have been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Investigation Discovery, syndicated nation-wide. Her educational videos include Begin with Love, hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Grandparenting, hosted by Maya Angelou.

Gartz's articles and essays have been published in literary journals, online, and in local and national magazines and newspapers, including The
Chicago Tribune. Born in Chicago, she studied at both Northwestern University and the University of Munich, and has lived most of her adult life in Evanston, IL. She earned her B.A. and M.A.T. degrees from Northwestern. To learn more, go to www.LindaGartz.