Could this have actually happened?

I would think that there would have been some very strict redlining in effect that would have absolutely prevented such a sale to a black person in a white neighborhood.

And how would they ever have qualified for a mortgage? At one point, Ruth screams out, "The note is only $125 per month." Interest rates were about 5% back then, so that a $125 per month payment on a 30-year loan would mean that the outstanding principal was about $23,000.

The only person who could have gotten the mortgage would have been the grandma as the owner of the house. What bank is going to give a 30-year mortgage to an 60-year-old unemployed black woman?




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.