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

should be successful with a Court that was more faithful to constitutional
requirements. They didn’t try to assure me that I could get away with it, but
neither did they tell me I was crazy.
My association with Lul Tesfai, a public policy graduate student now
also embarked on a career as a policy analyst, was especially rewarding.
Lul explored archives in, among others, the Bancroft Library at the
University of California and in the public libraries of Alameda, Santa Clara,
and San Mateo Counties. She attended meetings of the retirement club of
the UAW local union in Milpitas and conducted additional literature
reviews. She guided me to Westlake in Daly City so I could see this 1950s
segregated suburb for myself, and she took me to the local historical society
where we pored over old newspaper clippings together. Without her hard
work and nuanced understanding of the kinds of documents that would be
helpful, this book could not have illustrated with such detail the de jure
segregation that developed in the San Francisco area.
Sarah Brundage, another public policy graduate student, worked on this
book as it was nearing completion. She double-checked endnotes and
source citations, a task for which she was overqualified. But she also
prepared an exhaustive background report for me on how government
policy knowingly isolated African Americans in Baltimore from integrated
employment and housing opportunities. I regret that her extensive work had
to be reduced to only a paragraph in this book, in which I discuss the
inadequacy of Baltimore’s transportation system; the paragraph does not
adequately display her commitment to justice in housing policy or her
remarkable perseverance.
When Sarah graduated and moved on to a career as a housing policy
analyst, an incoming graduate student, Kimberly Rubens, picked up the
clean-up tasks, doing an equally competent job, including work on the
index and searches for photographs.
At the University of California at Berkeley, I had the opportunity to
supervise a group of undergraduate research “apprentices,” to whom I
assigned research into various topics related to the subject of this book. I
was capably assisted by a law student (now also a practicing attorney),
Sonja Diaz, from whom the undergraduates learned far more about research
techniques than they could from me. The reports that they produced were
quite helpful to me in organizing the research. I very much appreciate the