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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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192 As public housing towers like Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis were taken down in the early 1970s and

their sites redeveloped, residents were forced into other segregated neighborhoods. U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research.

194 Plano, Texas, 2016. Attorney Elizabeth Julian (left) successfully sued HUD and Dallas over

intentional discrimination. A settlement enabled Bernestine Williams (right) to move to this

middle-class integrated neighborhood, where she raised two college-bound children. Courtesy

of Betsy Julian.

214 A New Deal housing agency drew maps of metropolitan areas nationwide. Neighborhoods

where African Americans resided were colored red to caution appraisers not to approve loans.

This map is of Detroit. National Archives.

218 In the 1930s and 1940s, University of Chicago trustees (chairman Harold H. Swift, center)

instructed chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins (right) to ensure that neighborhoods near the

campus were segregated. His father, William James Hutchins (left), president of the interracial

Berea College in Kentucky, unsuccessfully advised his son to reject the demand. Special

Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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