Book Offers Tips To Blacks On How To Subvert Segregation In U.S. Housing

The discriminatory housing policies that restricted African Americans from purchasing homes go back decades — and the outcome of those policies has had profound consequences that are still felt today, Kelly Candaele reported for Capital & Main.

Photo Insert: A new book by Richard and Leah Rothstein gives tools to racial justice supporters who the authors hope will t employ them in a “new civil rights movement” that could challenge segregation and its effects.

A new book by Richard and Leah Rothstein gives tools to racial justice supporters who the authors hope will it employ them in a “new civil rights movement” that could challenge segregation and its effects.

Richard and Leah spoke to Candaele this week to discuss Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law, a follow-up to Richard Rothstein’s bestselling 2017 book, The Color of Law.

“Even though segregation was created primarily by federal policy, many local policies, programs, and practices maintain and strengthen it,” Richard said.

“We’ve highlighted communities across the country that are taking on strategies one piece at a time. There is movement everywhere, but we need to expand it by engaging not just activists, but all racial justice supporters in campaigns to redress segregation,” said Leah.

Many southern states continue to practice segregation, with communities practically banning Blacks as their neighbors while private companies that built housing projects and apartments in New York City like those of Fred Trump practically barred Blacks and Jews by imposing high rents and restrictions.

Fred Trump was the father of Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote for president in 2016 and got drubbed by President Joe Biden in 2020.

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