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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/born-in-flames/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/born-in-flames/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation’s urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through cities in the United States, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. | “Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation’s urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through cities in the United States, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. | ||
=====April 11, 1968: Fair Housing Act Signed Into Law===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fair-housing-act-signed-into-law/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
This Act was the result of years of grassroots organizing and protest across the United States. People demanded just treatment by landlords and equal access to housing in all parts of the country, not just in the “Jim Crow” segregated South. | |||
