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[https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/14 by EJI] | [https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/14 by EJI] | ||
On July 14, 1959, a New York committee organizing a fashion show for the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Russia, announced it would be removing three scenes that featured Black and white models together after dozens of fashion editors protested the representation of racial integration. | On July 14, 1959, a New York committee organizing a fashion show for the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Russia, announced it would be removing three scenes that featured Black and white models together after dozens of fashion editors protested the representation of racial integration. | ||
=====How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/how-red-lines-built-white-wealth-color-of-law-lesson/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
An 11th-grade student leaned back in his chair at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, and said, “Absurd. That is the only way to describe those numbers. They are absurd.” He and his classmates had just read statistics about the racial wealth gap in their Political Economy class: White households are worth at least 10 times as much as Black households; only 15 percent of whites have zero or negative wealth while a third of Blacks do; Black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000. These numbers are absurd, and they are not accidental. | |||
