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[https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-housing-segregation-shaped-americas-gayborhoods by Gillian Branstetter 6/6/23 ACLU] | [https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-housing-segregation-shaped-americas-gayborhoods by Gillian Branstetter 6/6/23 ACLU] | ||
For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks and realtors routinely rejected applications for mortgage loans and housing from single or divorced adults of any race, prizing the married heterosexual white man as the most “deserving” debtor and homeowner. The further away from this ideal someone happened to live — by virtue of their race, gender, marital status, or sexuality — the less likely they were to find housing outside of the country’s growing and strictly segregated urban centers. | For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks and realtors routinely rejected applications for mortgage loans and housing from single or divorced adults of any race, prizing the married heterosexual white man as the most “deserving” debtor and homeowner. The further away from this ideal someone happened to live — by virtue of their race, gender, marital status, or sexuality — the less likely they were to find housing outside of the country’s growing and strictly segregated urban centers. | ||
=====March 10, 1903: African American Leaders Protest Streetcar Segregation===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/streetcar-segregation-act/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
The Streetcar Segregation Act, adopted by the Arkansas legislature in 1903, had assigned African-American and white passengers to “separate but equal” sections of streetcars. | |||
