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

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Americans as Reconstruction ended. James Loewen’s Sundown

Towns tells how, throughout the nation, African Americans were

violently expelled and then barred from communities where they

had previously lived. Loewen has assembled substantial

information on racial violence in towns throughout the nation and

has posted it online. The Montana page on this site as of January

2017 is at sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?

state=MT. For information on other states, click on the map at

sundown.tougaloo.edu/content.php?file=sundowntownswhitemap.html.

p. 43, 2 Wolgemuth 1959, 159–67; King 1995, 9–17; Weiss 1969, 63–65;

NYT 1914; Kifer 1961, viii; Chicago Defender 1932.

p. 44, 2 NYT 1910.

p. 44, 3 Pietila 2010, 24; Power 1983, 303–4.

p. 45, 1 Crisis 1917; Silver 1997, 27, 32; Power 1983, 310; Rabin 1989,

106; Wehle 1915.

p. 45, 2 Buchanan v. Warley 1917. The Court’s opinion, by Justice William

R. Day, also acknowledged that racial zoning denied African

Americans equal protection, but this was not the basis of the

Court’s decision.

p. 46, 1 Whitten 1922; Randle 1989, 43; Rabin 1989, 107–8; Freund 2007,

66; Atlanta 1922, 10.

p. 46, 2 Bowen v. City of Atlanta 1924.

p. 46, 3 Thornbrough 1961, 598–99; Harmon v. Tyler 1927.

p. 47, 1 Richmond v. Deans 1930; Williams 2015.

p. 47, 2 Birmingham v. Monk 1950; Williams 1950; Greenberg 1959, 278.

p. 47, 3 Greenberg 1959, 278; Palm Beach online; Dowdell v. Apopka

1983; Rabin 1987.

p. 48, 4 Flint 1977, 50, 103, 114, 119, 207, 322, 345–57, 394; Gordon

2008, 122–28.

p. 51, 1 Freund 2007, 76–78; Chused 2001, 598–99; Advisory Committee

on Zoning 1926.

p. 51, 2 American City Planning Institute 1918, 44–45; Freund 2007, 73–

74. Olmsted Jr. was the son of Frederick Law Olmsted, the

renowned nineteenth-century park designer. In using the term

“racial divisions,” Olmsted Jr., like many national planning leaders

in those years, was referring to distinctions between whites and

European immigrants as well as between whites and African

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