now a few words of introduction for our distinguishing author, beryl satter. a native of the chicago area, beryl received infer b.a. from barb aired and phd from harvard. she is the ahor of each mind a kingdom, "american women," "sexl purity." her articles have appeared in a variety of journals including "u.s. catholic historian historian." please join pea inng withing beryl satter. >> well, thank you. that was a wonderful introduction. i didn't know until a few minutes ago that i was supposed to speak myself. i thought i just have to answer questions. what shall i say? one thing i will say is that the book i think is different from other books that deal with racial change in chica that bale with housing discrimination in part because i wasn't trained in those fields. if youeard him talk about the earlier publications,hey are about the history of swalety and women's history. and that is what i was trained in. i had the academic discipline. i knew how to be a historian. i was not imbued with the concerns and preconceptions and preoccupation that structure a lot

the first event of the day features beryl satter. discussed her book "family properties: race, real estate, and the exploitation of black urban america". >> thank you and good morni, everyone. i would like to welcome you to our session at the 205th annual chicago

the first event featured beryl satter who dcussed your book, the family and the exploitation of black urban america. >> thank you and good morning everyone. i would like to welcome you to our session, the 20 that the animal chicago tribune printers row lit fest. r session this morning features beryl satte the author of family properties, race, real estate in the exploitation of black america published earlier this year by metropolitan books. my name is at eric arneson and m a professor of history a the university of illinois at chicago and i will be talking to barrel about your book before we en up the discussion to you, our audience members but first if i made a few introductory remarks. for muh of the 20th century chicago has maintained decrepitation as one of the nation's most segregated cities. its african-american population consign to the black belt on the