![]() ![]() Real estate agents steered whites away from black neighborhoods, and blacks away from white ones.īanks discriminated with “redlining,” refusing to give mortgages to African Americans or extracting unusually severe terms from them with subprime loans.Īfrican Americans haven’t generally gotten the educations that would enable them to earn sufficient incomes to live in white suburbs, and, as a result, many remain concentrated in urban neighborhoods. When African Americans moved into a neighborhood like Ferguson, a few racially prejudiced white families decided to leave, and then as the number of black families grew, the neighborhood deteriorated, and “white flight” followed. ![]() THE COLOR OF LAW A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICAĭe facto segregation, we tell ourselves, has various causes. We said they are “ de facto segregated,” that they result from private practices, not from law or government policy. ![]()
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