Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation
Dorothy Gautreaux, a community organizer and resident of the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s South Side, becomes lead plaintiff in a landmark class-action lawsuit filed by six Black tenants with help from the American Civil Liberties Union. The suit alleges that the Chicago …
Dorothy Gautreaux
Chicago Housing Authority
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
institutional-capture
racial-oppression
housing-policy
legal-resistance
Read more →