In this New York Times bestseller, author Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America — the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife — is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state and federal levels. The impact has been devastating for generations of African-Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they could flourish most successfully. It is sadly the story of America in all of its municipalities, large and small, liberal and reactionary.

Federal Government institution of intergenerational wealth inequity: FHA redlining, “Whites Only” deed restrictions for post-war new sub-developments, National Association of Realtors prohibition of sales to Blacks in White neighborhoods resulting in license suspension, constructing highways to separate Black & White neighborhoods and the G.I. Bill excluding Black veterans

Edited from “Holy Post - Race in America” by Phil Vischer

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A study in Chicago shows how the dream of homeownership was converted into a poverty

The Klu Klux Klan waged a war that erupted into riots in the prosperous African-American community known as Black Wall Street or Little Africa in Tulsa, Oklahoma which burned down in 1921.