The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (z-lib.org).epub

A policeman inspects damage after the Wades’ house was dynamited.
Although the chief acknowledged that both the dynamiter and the cross
burners had confessed, the perpetrators were not indicted. Instead, a grand
jury indicted Carl and Anne Braden, along with four others whom the jury
accused of conspiring to stir up racial conflict by selling the house to African
Americans. The formal charge was “sedition.” Charges against the others
were dropped, but Carl Braden was sentenced to fifteen years in prison (he
eventually won release on appeal), and the Wades went back to Louisville’s
African American area.
Such violence in Kentucky did not end in the 1950s. In 1985, Robert and
Martha Marshall bought a home in Sylvania, another suburb of Louisville
that had remained exclusively white. Their house was firebombed on the
night they moved in. A month later, a second arson attack destroyed the
house, a few hours before a Ku Klux Klan meeting at which a speaker
boasted that no African Americans would be permitted to live in Sylvania.
The Marshall family then sued a county police officer who had been