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

transportation networks that could bring African Americans to job
opportunities, the inequality on which segregation feeds would have
diminished.
If federal programs were not, even to this day, reinforcing racial isolation
by disproportionately directing low-income African Americans who receive
housing assistance into the segregated neighborhoods that government had
previously established, we might see many more inclusive communities.
Undoing the effects of de jure segregation will be incomparably difficult.
To make a start, we will first have to contemplate what we have collectively
done and, on behalf of our government, accept responsibility.