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On a small network of curving, tree-lined streets in suburban DuPage County, Illinois, rests a collection of homes known today as The York Center Homeowners Association. From 1947 to 2007, these custom, single family homes built on 1 acre plots over ground once occupied by a dairy farm, came to be known as the York Center Co-op. This pioneering, faith-based effort provided fair housing, community and opportunity in an era of white flight, redlining, and restrictive covenants that effectively prevented non-white Americans from fully participating in the American dream. Despite acts of overt racism that included a cross burning, bullet holes through widows, internal conflict and systemic economic racism, the York Center Co-op and the White, Black, Asian and Jewish families who lived there, demonstrated to themselves, their neighbors and America, what results when determined people put aside racial, religious and class differences, and work together for the common good. 

Speaker Bio - Tim Frakes:

Tim Frakes is an award winning videographer, video producer, script writer and editor. He is a 1984 graduate of Harding University. His videos are broadcast on major television networks and distributed world wide through DVD sales. From 1993 to 2007 Mr. Frakes served as the principal videographer for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In March, 2007, he launched, Tim Frakes Productions Inc. producing documentary and image video for non-profit, faith-based, broadcast and corporate clients. Tim Frakes has produced programs in twenty countries across Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, Europe and the Middle East, including many productions in the United States. Mr. Frakes makes his home in suburban Chicago.