The GI Bill and Redlining. The GI Bill and Redlining experiences of a Black family and a white family.
Presentations by Pharaoh Saunders, Jordana Hart, Lane Arye, and Diane Wong give information and tell personal stories of how Middle-class wealth in the United States as post-WWII the United States sought to induce white veterans to become more patriotic citizens; to feel part of the American Dream shapes according to white or black. Within suburbs and in redlined communities.
Post-WWII GI Bill policies intended to benefit returning white GIs to the detriment of Black GIs and it did. Everything worked as planned and today we are fully segregated and distrustful of each other.
We provide historical context in telling stories of a white family and a black family's post-WWII experience with the GI Bill, FHA loan, and redlining in their quests for homeownership. The stories of the white family and Black family will contrast to demonstrate why median Black family wealth is currently less than 10% of white family wealth.
In addition, our Juneteenth 2021 race retreat commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa massacre. The Tulsa race massacre (known alternatively as the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, the Black Wall Street Massacre, the Tulsa pogrom, or the Tulsa Massacre) took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents.
Tulsa is but one example of ways that black wealth was repeatedly diminished with devastating consequences for today's black wealth.
