segregation

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/5/2022
  

  Homer Plessy's Posthumous Pardon Finally Recognizes His Heroism

  by Keisha N. Blain

  "The decision to pardon Plessy and finally clear his record are the culmination of efforts by Keith Plessy, the great-great-grandson of Homer Plessy’s cousin, and Phoebe Ferguson, the great-great-granddaughter of John H. Ferguson, the Louisiana judge who upheld the state's Separate Car Act."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2021
  

  Louisiana Governor to Decide Posthumous Pardon for Homer Plessy

  Louisiana's Avery C. Alexander Act, named for a longtime state House member, calls for pardoning individuals who were convicted of violating laws establishing segregation or discrimination, but has seldom been invoked to do so. 

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• SOURCE: Institute for New Economic Thinking
  11/15/2021
  

  Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?

  by Nancy MacLean

  "One would think that today the facts about the long struggle of southern white leaders to preserve segregation are so well known that simple fact-checking would suffice to rule out attempts to whitewash their efforts."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/28/2021
  

  When the Real Estate Industry Led the Fight to Defend Segregation

  California's battle over fair housing legislation in the 1960s shows a key development of modern conservatism: raising property rights to an absolute and brooking no infringement on it, particularly for the sake of racial equality, argues Gene Slater, author of a new book on fair housing. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  9/10/2021
  

  Los Angeles Pioneered American Racial Segregation

  by Gene Slater

  The real estate industry acted as a cartel to limit the free market in housing to preserve racial homogeneity, claiming it was necessary to protect property values. This form of housing segregation was tested in the booming market of 1920s California and spread nationwide. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/8/2021
  

  The Suburban Strategy

  Novelist Zinzi Clemmons looks to the history of Delaware County, Pennsylvania to consider, with help from historian Lara Putnam, the implications of Democrats' pursuit of the elusive suburban voter. 

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• SOURCE: New York Almanack
  7/6/2021
  

  How New York’s Suburbs Got So Segregated

  by Alan J. Singer

  The builders of Long Island's mass postwar suburbs chose not to challenge existing patterns of segregation, with consequences for communities and individuals today. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/7/2021
  

  The Supreme Court Justice Who Made History By Voting No on Racial Segregation

  Peter Canellos's new book examines John Marshall Harlan, whose blistering dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson was on the losing side in 1896 but became a foundational text for civil rights and equal protection activism. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/27/2021
  

  Deep-Rooted Racism, Discrimination Permeate US Military

  Since desegregating after World War II, the military has cultivated an image of meritocracy. Personnel have always charged that that image masks discrimination and a climate of hostility to servicemembers of color. Military justice procedures make measuring the problem difficult. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Law Today
  5/19/2021
  

  Plessy v. Ferguson at 125

  Harvard Law School Professor Kenneth Mack explains what the shameful decision meant, and why it still matters in 2021.

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  4/20/2021
  

  Caught in a Plague of Gun Violence (Letters from an American, April 19, 2021)

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  What explains the different reaction to two Valentine's Day massacres, in 1929 and 2018? Heather Cox Richardson examines the connections between a culture of individualism, desegregation, and guns. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  4/19/2021
  

  On the Legacy of Jim Crow, Ted Cruz Picks the Wrong Partisan Fight (Opinion)

  Ted Cruz imagines that the partisan affiliation of Jim Crow segregationists is a "gotcha" against the Democratic Party today, which only makes sense if you ignore everything that's happened since 1964.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  4/5/2021
  

  What Manhattan Beach’s Racist Land Grab Really Meant

  by Alison Rose Jefferson

  Debates over  the redress of past racial injustice must acknowledge that some past actions have harmed communities in ways that can't be repaired, including the loss of space for communal leisure or equal access to everyday pleasures. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Daily
  3/22/2021
  

  Minneapolis Homeowners Can Now Reject Racial Covenants On Their Deed

  Racial restrictive covenants have been legally unenforceable since 1948 and illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but remain on the deeds of many older properties. A program in Minnesota allows homeowners to remove them. 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/17/2021
  

  He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

  Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/3/2021
  

  Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’

  Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8. 

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• SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles
  2/22/21
  

  New Exhibit Reckons With Glendale's Racist Past as ‘Sundown Town'

  The suburban city of Glendale, CA has initiated a series of public programs confronting its legacy as a "sundown town" where minorities, particulary African Americans, were able to work but barred from living or socializing. 

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• SOURCE: Hartford Courant
  2/19/2021
  

  West Hartford is Mostly White, While Bloomfield is Largely Black. How that Came to be Tells the Story of Racism and Segregation in American Suburbs

  Local historians in West Hartford are working to promote public knowledge of exclusionary zoning and other practices that built and maintained racial segregation in the suburbs. 

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• SOURCE: Fresno Bee
  1/14/2021
  

  How Decades of Housing Discrimination Hurts Fresno in the Pandemic

  RetroReport produces a short documentary examining how longterm housing discrimination in Fresno, CA has contributed to unequal health and economic outcomes in the COVID pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/28/2020
  

  The Complicated Racial History of the High School D.C. is Renaming

  Renaming Woodrow Wilson High after Edna Burke Jackson, who taught history as one of two Black faculty members in the years after desegregation, is an obvious choice.