Ayisha Doyle has been fighting to save family her home from deed theft. In 2017, a man informed her his company owned half of her house.
Amsterdam News has been reporting the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years. Donors who choose to give monthly or annually will receive Amsterdam News’ Weekly E-Edition and acclaimed weekday newsletter Editorially Black to their inbox!Portrait of Mabel and Walter Clement Moore taken on back deck of 234 Jefferson Avenue in late 1946 or early 1947.
“So, I was shocked when this guy told me that because I was like, first of all, how’d you find him at the bottom of the world? That’s what immediately made me think, oh, this can’t be real. The guy said, ‘Well, we’ll send something in the mail, and I’ll call you back.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no. Who you can speak to next is my lawyer, because you and I will not be conversing.’ And then the next thing I got in the mail was a default judgment from the foreclosure court granting them a partition.
The Doyle family survived the race-based turmoil of the time: They were one of the first of three Black families to move to the block. Overt housing discrimination was so strong that they used a proxy –– a white person to stand in as their substitute –– to purchase their home. Even with the paperwork for the property signed, though, they couldn’t get a bank mortgage on the house: Banks would not give Black people mortgages.
To this day, Ayisha Doyle can’t believe that Zucker was able to locate her uncle and purchase shares of the property. She said that she has asked him to provide some kind of payment receipt proving that Walter Giles sold his share, but Zucker has failed to do so.
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