segregation

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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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• SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles
  2/22/21
  

  New Exhibit Reckons With Glendale's Racist Past as ‘Sundown Town'

  The suburban city of Glendale, CA has initiated a series of public programs confronting its legacy as a "sundown town" where minorities, particulary African Americans, were able to work but barred from living or socializing. 

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• SOURCE: Hartford Courant
  2/19/2021
  

  West Hartford is Mostly White, While Bloomfield is Largely Black. How that Came to be Tells the Story of Racism and Segregation in American Suburbs

  Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs. 

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• SOURCE: Fresno Bee
  1/14/2021
  

  How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic

  RetroReport produces a short documentary examining how longterm housing discrimination in Fresno, CA has contributed to unequal health and economic outcomes in the COVID pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/28/2020
  

  The Complicated Racial History of the High School D.C. is Renaming

  Renaming Woodrow Wilson High after Edna Burke Jackson, who taught history as one of two Black faculty members in the years after desegregation, is an obvious choice. 

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• Terror in the City Too Busy to Hate: How the English Avenue School Bombing Challenged Atlanta’s Popular Myth of Racial Progress

  by Max Blau and Todd Michney

  Months before Atlanta’s public schools desegregated, someone bombed an all-Black school on the city’s Westside. On the 60th anniversary of that incident, Max Blau and Todd Michney revisit the forces that led to the attack and reflect on its legacy.

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  12/5/2020
  

  Wrestling With Woodrow Wilson’s Complicated Legacy

  A longtime Virginia political observer suggests that there is more to learn by considering Woodrow Wilson's complex social views and political legacy than by taking his clear racism as reason to hide him from sight. 

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/3/2020
  

  When the Textbooks Lied, Black Alabamians Turned to Each Other for History

  Edward Ayers and Kevin M. Levin are cited in a discussion of the gradual turn of Alabama's history curriculum away from the Lost Cause mythology and apologetics for slavery. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation

  Journalist and photographer Richard Frishman examines traces of segregation and racial exclusion in the built environment of the US.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2020
  

  Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths

  While Donald Trump imagines American suburbia as affluent, homogenous and imperiled by liberal housing policies, Joe Biden ignores the fact that separate suburban municipalities work to segregate Americans by race and class and perpetuate different levels of access to opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Brookings Institution
  10/15/2020
  

  Why is Trump Obsessed with Suburbia?

  by Willow Lung-Ammam

  Trump and Carson do not want white America to see itself as recipients of federal welfare policies that made suburbs possible, profitable, and desirable–from Federal Housing Administration loans and interstate highways to mortgage interest deductions. Instead, they position white suburbanites as defenders of democracy.

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• SOURCE: Gothamist
  10/5/2020
  

  Are Trump And Biden Fighting About Abolishing The Suburbs, Or Desegregating Them?

  Beneath the rhetoric rests a genuine policy debate over the extent to which the federal government needs to push municipalities to undo segregation. This debate has been going on since 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.