A Million in Captivity
Episode 3: A Million in Captivity
Air Date: May 2, 2024
Director
Narrated By: Linda Kimbrough
This episode tells the story of the intentional creation of a vast spatial gap in Black and white experience in the late 1950s and 1960s. Revealing how the original vision of public housing advocates in the New Deal era came up against the determination of mayors, real estate firms, and homeowners to prevent an integrated city, “A Million in Captivity” chronicles the ensuing consequences, which produced concentrated poverty in poorly constructed, high-density developments cut off from the wealth building opportunities and massive government subsidies that underwrote the suburbs.
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