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

p. 26, 4 Franklin Roosevelt’s administration was notorious for creating
multiple agencies with overlapping jurisdictions. In a 1939
reorganization, the USHA became part of the Federal Works
Agency (FWA). The FWA then was given direct responsibility for
Lanham Act projects, even where there was no local housing
authority participating.
Accounts differ regarding the number killed or wounded in the
Sojourner Truth riot. I rely here on Robert Weaver’s (1948, 92–94)
because his is closer to contemporaneous. If, as other accounts
have it (e.g., Funigiello 1978, 99, citing Shogan and Craig’s 1964,
The Detroit Race Riot), large numbers were killed, not wounded, I
assume that Weaver would have known about it. Weaver was the
most important African American official of the federal
government during World War II, responsible for monitoring the
interests of African Americans in employment, training and
housing. Sugrue (1996, 2005, 74), closely confirming Weaver,
reports that “at least 40 people were injured, 220 arrested, and 109
were held for trial—all but three black.” Other accounts of the
Sojourner Truth incident include Goodwin 1994, 326–27; White
1942; Foreman 1974.
p. 27, 2 Sugrue 1996, 2005, 80, 85; Sugrue 1995, 569, 571–72.
p. 27, 3 Weaver 1948, 199–200. A more recent account (Broussard 1993,
175–76) seems to contradict Weaver’s and states that the Hunters
Point project was thoroughly integrated. I accept Weaver’s claim of
segregation because it is nearly contemporaneous and because
Weaver was in a position to know (and was probably involved in)
the controversy over segregation in Hunters Point (see note to page
26, 4, above). For the role of Robert Weaver, see Hill 2005.
Possibly Broussard categorized Hunters Point as integrated
because it included both black and white units, although the project
was internally segregated. The description of Hunters Point as
integrated may stem from the period just after the war when, as in
Willow Run in Michigan (see note to page 26, 2, above),
vacancies in the white units developed as the occupants found
private housing and African Americans were permitted to occupy
the vacant units.
p. 28, 2 Broussard 1993, 177, 179, 222; Johnson, Long, and Jones 1944,
22; Banks v. Housing Authority of City and County of San
Francisco 1953; Weaver 1948, 168–69; Alancraig 1953, 74–75.
p. 29, 2 France 1962, 39–40, 58 (n. 23); Wirt 1974, 251; Link 1971, 53;