Contract Buyers League

CTL-E-1176 · Institution · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Grassroots organization founded in 1968 by North Lawndale residents to fight the predatory contract-selling system that stripped wealth from Black homebuyers.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:cbl; source research type(s): institution. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Chicago Catholic — 'Local Catholics helped effort to end contract buying' (2017-06-25); Bill Moyers/Coates — 'When Chicago's Black Neighborhoods Fought Back' (2014-05-22)
Wikipedia — 'Contract Buyers League'; The Chicago Reporter — 'Inside the Contract Buyers League's fight against housing discrimination'; Chicago Catholic (2017-06-25)
CTU — 'Contract Selling is Racially targeted disinvestment'; Bill Moyers/Coates (2014-05-22)

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