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Shame of Chicago, Shame of The Nation

A Million in Captivity

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A Million in Captivity

This four-part documentary series lays bare the true stories behind how Chicago and its suburbs helped devise the nation's most sweeping system of racially segregated communities, and how these policies diminished the lives of generations of Black families, creating the vast racial wealth gap that persists to this day.

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