"Dear Father, From Travis"

Hello, and welcome to my blog. This is my final action project for my Humanities course called Drama and for my Sophomore year. In this class, we broke off into parts and read Loraine Hansberry's, A Raisin in the Sun. In this class, we studied housing discrimination, segregation, and racism in Chicago which still continues today in our country today. We had virtual Field Experience guests Regina Holloway and Joel Hamernick who spoke to us about restrictive covenants in Chicago and how specific laws were put in place to keep black families out of white neighborhoods. Prior to this class, I wrote up a research paper containing the factors and behaviors that went into housing discrimination such as restrictive covenants and the pricing on a property skyrocketing for a person due to their ethnic and cultural background. For this Action Project, we were guided to write a letter to Walter Younger to convince him on whether he should or should not sell the house to Mr. Linder. I decided to write a letter, the man of the household, from the view of another character in the play. This letter is directed to Walter who has the final decision on whether their family will move to an all-white neighborhood as the only blacks there or remain in poverty in the "Black Belt" in Chicago. I was challenged to write this letter because of the social circumstances at the time within my city and neighborhood.