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

Petersen, never once complained about the hours, days, months, and years
when I ignored obligations to her because of my obsession with this work.
My children, too, were unfailingly understanding. Thankfully, this tolerance
was partly due to our shared belief that the message of this book is
important. I hope they know that I know how lucky I am.
And there is another debt. Although I have noted that my interest in this
topic stemmed from perplexity about the Supreme Court’s Parents Involved
ruling, that’s not the full story. My interest originated much earlier. As a
young boy growing up in New York in the 1940s and ’50s, my world was
forever transformed when Jackie Robinson started playing for the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Doris Kearns Goodwin, in Wait Till Next Year, describes how the
experience of being a devoted Dodgers fan at that time shaped her (and
unbeknownst to her, my) worldview in a way that guided our adulthoods.
So thank you, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Rickey, too.