About Beryl Satter
Born 1959. Beryl Satter is an American historian and academic.
Beryl Satter (born January 14, 1959) is an American historian and a professor of history at Rutgers University.
Life
Satter was born on January 14, 1959, as the daughter of civil rights lawyer Mark J. Satter, who fought for black families suffering under the ruthless and oftentimes racist conditions that pervaded Chicago's real estate market. In 1965, her father died of heart failure when she was just six years old. In particular, they have examined the history of race relations in Chicago, including their connection with the local real estate market, which at times was among the most segregated in the nation. Her work served as the basis for Ta-Nehisi Coates's award-winning 2014 article "The Case for Reparations".
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American historian
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