Thanks for helping to make Fit For a King Celebration '10 such a success! Please enjoy photos and video from the event.

Click below to view a video of Beryl Satter's Keynote Address (1 hour long)

Dr. Beryl Satter, Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America. In Family Properties Satter outlines the history of mortgage redlining and exploitative contract sales targeted at Black homeowners in Chicago through the story of her father, a civil rights attorney in the 1950s and 60s.

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Keynote Speaker Beryl Satter discusses the history discriminatory real estate practices in Chicago

Keynote Speaker Beryl Satter

Historian Keith Medley presents on the origins of legalized segregation in New Orleans

GNOFHAC Interim Co-Director Kate Scott introduces NIMBYism panelists Marla Williams, Annie Clark, Lance Hill, Christine Robertson, James Perry and Amber Seely

Over 100 people attended the conference

Conference attendees

Conference attendees

Lynnette Colin presents at "Putting it together: Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods through Economic, Housing & Community Development" workshop with Sara Meadows Tolleson, Saundra Reed, and Una Anderson

"Putting it Together" workshop attendees

Morgan Williams presents at "Exclusionary Practices & Inclusionary Policies: Approaches to Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing" workshop

"Exclusionary Practices & Inclusionary Policies" workshop attendees

Tamar McFarlane, Aisha Lewis and Ali Shabazz of STAND with Dignity lead a conversation at "Affordable to Who? Accountable to Who: Organizing Against NIMBYism" workshop

Amber Seely presents at "Community Benefit Agreements: Documenting Consensus & Formalizing Agreements as Anti-NIMBY Strategies" workshop

Book reading and signing with Beryl Satter at Community Book Center

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