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[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-resistance-to-school-desegregation/ by EJI 03/01/14] | [https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-resistance-to-school-desegregation/ by EJI 03/01/14] | ||
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools. In March 1956, 101 of 128 Southern congressmen signed “The Southern Manifesto,” denouncing the decision. Many Southern communities followed their lead, resisting integration with protest and violence. | In 1954, the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education struck down racial segregation in public schools. In March 1956, 101 of 128 Southern congressmen signed “The Southern Manifesto,” denouncing the decision. Many Southern communities followed their lead, resisting integration with protest and violence. | ||
=====How Real Estate Segregated America===== | |||
[https://dissentmagazine.org/article/how-real-estate-segregated-america-fair-housing-act-race/ by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2018 DISSENT] | |||
In a year of many anniversaries, two in particular stand out with respect to the housing crisis facing the United States today. The first is the passage of Title VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, more commonly known as the Fair Housing Act. In some ways, the legislation bitterly acknowledged the role of housing discrimination in keeping African Americans in a subordinate social position. Excluding Black people from white neighborhoods, while simultaneously disinvesting in Black communities, has kept them out of the best-funded schools and highest-paying jobs. Housing discrimination was a linchpin of Black inequality in American society, and the Fair Housing Act held out the promise of undoing it by banning racial discrimination in the renting, financing, and selling of housing. | |||
