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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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Frontispiece AP Photo / George Skadding.

x Joseph Lee and Barbara Jo Jones. Their successful 1968 lawsuit established that housing

discrimination is a badge of slavery. Photo by Lester Linck, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

2 Richmond, California, 1948. African Americans worked together with whites in a Ford

assembly plant but were barred from living in white neighborhoods. Courtesy of the

Richmond Museum of History, Richmond, California.

16 Detroit, 1943. A family moves into the segregated Sojourner Truth public housing project,

having withstood equivocation by federal officials and rioting by white neighborhood

residents. Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State

University.

38 St. Louis, 1916. Leaflet urging voters to adopt a referendum that prohibited African

Americans from moving onto predominantly white blocks. Missouri History Museum, St.

Louis.

58 Detroit, 1941. The Federal Housing Administration required a developer to build a wall

separating his whites-only project from nearby African American residences. Library of

Congress.

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