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[https://dissentmagazine.org/article/how-real-estate-segregated-america-fair-housing-act-race/ by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2018 DISSENT] | [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. | 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. | ||
=====Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/desegregating-blood-a-civil-rights-struggle-to-remember by Thomas A. Guglielmo homas 4/2/18 PBS NEWS] | |||
Having heard the “soul-stirring” appeals for blood donors on her radio, she was determined to do her part. But when she arrived at the center, the supervisor turned her away. “Orders from the National Offices,” he explained, “barred Negro blood donors at this time.” | |||
