title: Beryl Satter
text: # Beryl Satter
  
  Beryl Satter (born 14 January 1959) is an American historian and a professor of history at Rutgers University.
  
  ## Life
  
  Satter was born on 14 January 1959 as the daughter of civil rights lawyer Mark J. Satter, who fought for black families suffering under the ruthless and oftentimes racist conditions that pervaded Chicago's real estate market. In 1965, her father died of heart failure when she was just six years old.
  
  ## Career
  
  Satter graduated from Yale University in 1992. She is currently a professor of history at Rutgers University.
  
  The books she has authored focus mostly on the history of the city of Chicago. In particular, they have examined the history of race relations in Chicago, including their connection with the local real estate market, which at times was among the most segregated in the nation. Her work served as the basis for Ta-Nehisi Coates's award-winning 2014 article "The Case for Reparations".
  
  ## Distinctions
  
  Satter became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.
  
  