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Part 2: Local Catholics help end contract buying

Fifty years after the Contract Buyers League was formed in Chicago, activists continue to fight against predatory lending, especially in poor neighborhoods and those that are predominantly home to people of color.

Local Catholics helped effort to end contract buying

Clyde Ross was working two jobs in the summer of 1967. His wife, Lillie, worked too, but between them, they could barely make ends meet, feeding and educating five children, and hold onto the house they bought on Flournoy Street in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood.

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