Now what years did all this occur in.
My dad grew up as a sharecropper, and they had to pay the company store each month. So the fact your family didn't is one advantage whites had. My dad fought in WW2, but unlike white soldiers he couldn't get the GI Bill. He was denied the guaranteed loans whites got to buy those houses your sister fixed up. My mom went to high school in Harlan County Kentucky. When she graduated High School as one of the top students in her class, she was not allowed to go to the closest college because they didn't allow blacks. So because she coudn't afford to go to the closest black college that was 2-300 miles away, she never went to colege. This was during Jim Crow, those great times where black families were strong according to that dumb ass Uncle Tom Donalds.