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5/1/2022
High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities
by Tiff Beatty
Chicago artist Tonika Lewis Johnson is creating public installations documenting properties where Black residents were subjected to predatory contract home sales, and connecting the past to the present struggles of the city's south and west sides.
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SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
4/21/2022
TCU Faculty and Students Prepare to Grapple with the Past
"TCU formed the Race and Reconciliation Initiative in August in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted TCU and many other universities to research their history with slavery."
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/22/2022
Is "Regulation from Below" Possible? Historian Rebecca Marchiel on Community Housing Activism
"Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. Perhaps the lesson should have been that capitalism refuses to work for people."
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SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
2/4/2022
"Not For Sale" Dramatizes the Costs of Opposing Segregation in 1960s Suburbia
Barbara Teed's play dramatizes her own family's history, which was shaped by a racist backlash to her father's advocacy for fair housing.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
1/5/2022
Homer Plessy's Posthumous Pardon Finally Recognizes His Heroism
by Keisha N. Blain
"The decision to pardon Plessy and finally clear his record are the culmination of efforts by Keith Plessy, the great-great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s cousin, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of John H. Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who upheld the state's Separate Car Act."
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/12/2021
Louisiana Governor to Decide Posthumous Pardon for Homer Plessy
Louisiana's Avery C. Alexander Act, named for a longtime state House member, calls for pardoning individuals who were convicted of violating laws establishing segregation or discrimination, but has seldom been invoked to do so.
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SOURCE: Institute for New Economic Thinking
11/15/2021
Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
by Nancy MacLean
"One would think that today the facts about the long struggle of southern white leaders to preserve segregation are so well known that simple fact-checking would suffice to rule out attempts to whitewash their efforts."
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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
9/28/2021
When the Real Estate Industry Led the Fight to Defend Segregation
California's battle over fair housing legislation in the 1960s shows a key development of modern conservatism: raising property rights to an absolute and brooking no infringement on it, particularly for the sake of racial equality, argues Gene Slater, author of a new book on fair housing.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/10/2021
Los Angeles Pioneered American Racial Segregation
by Gene Slater
The real estate industry acted as a cartel to limit the free market in housing to preserve racial homogeneity, claiming it was necessary to protect property values. This form of housing segregation was tested in the booming market of 1920s California and spread nationwide.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
9/8/2021
The Suburban Strategy
Novelist Zinzi Clemmons looks to the history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania to consider, with help from historian Lara Putnam, the implications of Democrats' pursuit of the elusive suburban voter.
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SOURCE: New York Almanack
7/6/2021
How New York’s Suburbs Got So Segregated
by Alan J. Singer
The builders of Long Island's mass postwar suburbs chose not to challenge existing patterns of segregation, with consequences for communities and individuals today.
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SOURCE: NPR
7/7/2021
The Supreme Court Justice Who Made History By Voting No on Racial Segregation
Peter Canellos's new book examines John Marshall Harlan, whose blistering dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson was on the losing side in 1896 but became a foundational text for civil rights and equal protection activism.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
5/27/2021
Deep-Rooted Racism, Discrimination Permeate US Military
Since desegregating after World War II, the military has cultivated an image of meritocracy. Personnel have always charged that that image masks discrimination and a climate of hostility to servicemembers of color. Military justice procedures make measuring the problem difficult.
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SOURCE: Harvard Law Today
5/19/2021
Plessy v. Ferguson at 125
Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack explains what the shameful decision meant, and why it still matters in 2021.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
4/20/2021
Caught in a Plague of Gun Violence (Letters from an American, April 19, 2021)
by Heather Cox Richardson
What explains the different reaction to two Valentine's Day massacres, in 1929 and 2018? Heather Cox Richardson examines the connections between a culture of individualism, desegregation, and guns.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
4/19/2021
On the Legacy of Jim Crow, Ted Cruz Picks the Wrong Partisan Fight (Opinion)
Ted Cruz imagines that the partisan affiliation of Jim Crow segregationists is a "gotcha" against the Democratic Party today, which only makes sense if you ignore everything that's happened since 1964.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
4/5/2021
What Manhattan Beach’s Racist Land Grab Really Meant
by Alison Rose Jefferson
Debates over the redress of past racial injustice must acknowledge that some past actions have harmed communities in ways that can't be repaired, including the loss of space for communal leisure or equal access to everyday pleasures.
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SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
3/22/2021
Minneapolis Homeowners Can Now Reject Racial Covenants On Their Deed
Racial restrictive covenants have been legally unenforceable since 1948 and illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but remain on the deeds of many older properties. A program in Minnesota allows homeowners to remove them.
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SOURCE: YouTube
2/17/2021
He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964
Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/3/2021
Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8.
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