Timeline of the Racial Wealth Divide by Nora Leccese https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh Made with charm en-us 2021-12-14 16:35:33 UTC 2022-05-24 00:02:28 UTC hello@padlet.com 1492 Native Land Theft Begins nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947485109 2021-12-14 16:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947485109 1892 Homestead Act nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947486597 2021-12-14 16:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947486597 1921 Destruction of Black Wall St. in Tulsa nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947487654 2021-12-14 16:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947487654 1944 GI Bill nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947488139 2021-12-14 16:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947488139 1970 War on Drugs nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947488567 2021-12-14 16:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947488567 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947489612 2021-12-14 16:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1947489612 1930s- redlining, marking "riskier"neighborhoods, making it hard to get mortgages for Black families nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948327803 2021-12-15 01:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948327803 1990s tough on crime policies under Clinton and welfare reform nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948329977 2021-12-15 01:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948329977 1904- Border Patrol Established nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331103 2021-12-15 01:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331103 1705: Virginia Slave Code nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331389 2021-12-15 01:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331389 Establishing Pure Christian Blood- Limpieza de Sangre nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331963 2021-12-15 01:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948331963 Ronald Regan de-regulates banks and businesses nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948340387 2021-12-15 01:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948340387 Covid-19 Crisis nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948345991 2021-12-15 01:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/1948345991 1761 Great Britain Colonizes India nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196369748 2022-05-23 18:47:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196369748 1898- Spanish American War- US Annexes Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Cuba nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196373416 2022-05-23 18:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196373416 1940 Japanese Internment nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196375521 2022-05-23 18:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196375521 Early 1920's https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196621294 Urgyen's Great Great grandfather studies architecture in Britain, comes back and builds huge projects for the British colonial government ]]> 2022-05-23 23:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196621294 Late 1800s https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196621725 Eliza's ancestor works on transcontinental railroad, builds wealth by exploiting chinese workers]]> 2022-05-23 23:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196621725 Late 30s Early 40's https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196622463 Urgyen's ancestors are involved in making uniforms and other supplies for British government + army fighting WW2 ]]> 2022-05-23 23:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196622463 1915-1923 - https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196622603 US severs political relationships with the Ottoman Empire after declaring war on Germany, Christian (/passing) refugees are granted admission into the US (CP)]]> 2022-05-23 23:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196622603 1950s https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196623535 Kira's great grandfather buys a piece of commercial real estate in lower Manhattan, sells it a few years later to larger and more established developers]]> 2022-05-23 23:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196623535 Nora's grandfather benefits from GI bill, ascends to middle class nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196623728 2022-05-23 23:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196623728 1948 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624132 Urgyen's great grandfather sells a portion of the families immense land holdings and uses the money as startup capital for an Indian subsidiary of German industrial manufacturer Either Motors]]> 2022-05-23 23:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624132 2020 Census https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624227 Some folks from SWANA/MENA communities are still advocating for there to be another racial and/or ethnic category on the US census (currently counted as "white") in order to more specifically allocate $ and other resources (CP)]]> 2022-05-23 23:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624227 Nora's great grandmother gets a law degree from a segregated institution nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624389 2022-05-23 23:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624389 2020 - present https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624396 Stock market is very profitable despite global pandemic ]]> 2022-05-23 23:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624396 1956 - (Adria) My maternal grandmother travels from China to Macau with my mother - this starts the process of her trying to get each family member out of China over the next several years as the rise of the Communist Party threatened their safety https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624693 2022-05-23 23:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196624693 1970 (Adria) My dad moved to the US as a college student in New York https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196626529 2022-05-23 23:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196626529 1990's Libéralisation of Indian Economy https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196626748 Urgyen; Neoliberal reforms transform the Indian market, Eicher becomes a major player in industrial machinery manufacturing landscape ]]> 2022-05-23 23:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196626748 2010ish? https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627000 Kira's maternal side sells a large piece of real estate to the folks who later developed the Hudson Yards in NYC]]> 2022-05-23 23:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627000 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627148 Noura AA’s father, Karl, is born in philadelphia to a black father and mixed race mother His father was a veteran. He was denied entry to medical school and instead became a successful funeral parlor owner, owning three funeral homes in the philadelphia area ]]> 2022-05-23 23:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627148 1968 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627926 Eliza's dad gets law degree]]> 2022-05-23 23:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196627926 1973 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628280 Eliza's mom gets law degree]]> 2022-05-23 23:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628280 1950s https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628425 Kira's paternal grandfather attends Harvard and graduates second in his class, is able to take a risk to take a lower paying job rather than go to medical school (because of his upper middle class status! and Whiteness!)]]> 2022-05-23 23:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628425 Nora's ancestors flee Northern Ireland under thread of persecution from British Rule . Able to immigrate to US legally and without red tape nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628923 2022-05-23 23:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196628923 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629120 Noura AA’s mother, Sarah is born in 1956 in Cairo Egypt. Sarah’s mother Martha ( Irish American share cropper from Georgia) and her father Saleh (from an established merchant family in Saudi Arabia) had met as students at Berkeley a few years earlier.]]> 2022-05-23 23:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629120 2015 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629135 Kira's dad gets laid off and quickly gets a new job that triples his income]]> 2022-05-23 23:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629135 Johnson-Reed Act https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629890 This act’s quota system was in place for 40+ years, and it seriously reduced the number of immigrants not from NW Europe to the United States (CP)]]> 2022-05-23 23:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629890 1980ish Adria's dad gets his PhD from CalTech https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629990 2022-05-23 23:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196629990 1950ish https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196631371 Urgyens paternal grandfather goes to MIT, comes back to India and marries grandmother, starts working for her father at Eicher, running factories]]> 2022-05-23 23:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196631371 1981ish Adria's dad finds that he has limited opportunity at his initial job out of graduate school (at a defense contractor) because of his connections to family back in Asia, decides to pursue a different career https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196631443 2022-05-23 23:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196631443 1972 (CP) https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633072 My dad is in the first generation of his family to graduate from HS, goes on to get a medical degree and start generating wealth as a physician + investing in stocks]]> 2022-05-23 23:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633072 2020 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633352 Urgyen's families holdings (both in Eicher and in the market in general) dip and then balloon through the pandemic. 

Eicher's 2020 revenue is $1.5 billion. Extended family owns 49% stake, immediate family has a small percentage of a percentage stake. ]]> 2022-05-23 23:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633352 1984ish Adria's dad is able to leverage his position as a western-educated Chinese professional to secure a promotion to management-level roles at his company, opening up/running branches in Asia; family moves back to Hong Kong https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633372 2022-05-23 23:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196633372 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634448 Noura AA: I’m not sure of the details but sometime in the 60s and 70s Saleh’s business begins taking off. He eventually makes a fortune selling heavy machinery to oil companies in Saudi and running construction businesses within Saudi. ]]> 2022-05-23 23:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634448 1992 Adria's family moves back to the United States for dad to pursue an upper-management position at a tech company in silicon valley https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634681 2022-05-23 23:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634681 early 1700s? https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634683 Eliza's first ancestors come to the U.S.]]> 2022-05-23 23:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634683 Nora's great grandmother invests savings from professional job in stock market, it grows steadily for 70 years nora137 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634910 2022-05-23 23:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196634910 2001ish Adria's dad is the CEO of a tech startup & sells company; makes a LOT of money in the initial dot com boom; decides to retire early https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196635566 2022-05-23 23:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196635566 1985ish https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636219 Kira: my maternal great grandmother passes away and gives my mom unrestricted access to her trust, suddenly inheriting millions of dollars]]> 2022-05-24 00:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636219 1800's? https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636504 Urgyen's ancestors are large landowners, feudal landlords to several villages ]]> 2022-05-24 00:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636504 2007 Adria's dad decides to un-retire, is hired as the CEO of another tech startup https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636732 2022-05-24 00:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196636732 https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196638455 Noura AA: relations between Saudi and Egypt sour making it difficult for Saleh to visit his wife and children in Egypt. He forcibly moves everyone to Lebanon which causes family disjunction for generations ~ another element that leads to the shrouding of my family wealth ]]> 2022-05-24 00:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/nora137/raa7t5cpg1kgifgh/wish/2196638455