A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America

History of the East Bay and the USCommunity Development and Economic JusticeRacial Reconciliation & Systemic Racism
Written By Jordan McGrath

Terry Gross

In 1933, faced with a housing shortage, the federal government began a program explicitly designed to increase — and segregate — America's housing stock. Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation."

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