Richard T. Ely

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• SOURCE: Platform
  11/1/2021
  

  How Academia Laid the Groundwork for Redlining

  by Todd Michney and LaDale Winling

  Richard T. Ely and his student Ernest McKinley Fisher pushed the National Association of Real Estate Boards to adopt "the unsupported hypothesis that Black people's very presence inexorably lowered property values," tying the private real estate industry to racial segregation.