In the part 2 episode of their Candyman episode Christin digs into the history of the Cabrini-Green housing projects starting with the Federal Housing Authority's denial of housing loans to African Americans back in the 1940s. Christin goes into how the denial of allowing African Americans to build equity lead to the violent and neglected housing projects of Chicago. Then Christin tells Chris the true murder that inspired Candyman, that of Ruthie Mae McCoy.
Sources:
https://chicagoganghistory.com/housing-project/cabrini-green/
30 min documentary about Cabrini-Green:
Articles by journalist Steve Borgia:
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/Content?oid=871084
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cause-of-death/Content?oid=875995
NPR interview with Richard Rothstein, author of "The Color Of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America":
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/526655831
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