Started listening to the audiobook around summer of 2021.

Notes

Color of Law Notes

Chapter 1

Timestamps:

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1945

• The original purpose of public housing was to provide housing to people who could afford it normally but couldn’t find it for market reasons

• The 1970 Detroit case for the white summers were not included in desegregation efforts because the Supreme Court falsely claimed that Dwight suburbs are not part of legal segregation

• African-American World War II veterans did not apply for a mortgage when they came back because they knew they would be rejected, rather mortgage assistance so they did not create the wealthy white Veterans Day

• Summarize the three sections for San Francisco red lining, first was the person in Richmond working for the Ford factory, the second was the Stanford co-op board, the third was East Palo Alto fear mongering

Chapter 2

Section 1

• Public housing organizations from the new deal were amenable and adjusted to local governments that wanted segregation or wanna know programs for Black people at all

• TVA in the CCC

Section 2

• PWA and the US HA which were trying to maintain the current social structure of the neighborhoods that they would build public housing in but in practice they ended up reinforcing the existing or burgeoning racial separation by creating a lot of single racial units for housing complexes and this is why

Langston Hughes David edition person in distress first best friend was Polish in central high school in Cleveland before it got segregated

Section 3

• local governments pushed for segregation all over the country even for these federal programs, one was one that Eleanor Roosevelt convinced FDR to push back on, cities like Boston in San Francisco

Section 4

• the federal attempt to cynically remove segregation from the housing expansion bill

Section 5

• now that public housing was no longer needed by whites, the issue is that new public housing projects we’re always chosen to be in black areas instead of white areas

Section 6

• 1950 the private housing industry was able to lobby to get income limits for public housing because the housing shortage has subsided and then this turn public housing into a warehouse for poor people

Chapter 3

racial integration has increased steadily from 1882 around mid 20th century, and then pretty much stone Simpson

Section 1

reconstruction ends around 1877 during the disputed election, the black folk that fled the south, there was violence and in South Carolina in Edgefield in Hamburg, Benjamin Tillman, this is Wyatt Ladd to white people suppressing the black vault

Section 2

Jim Crow sentiment began to grow its spread outside the south too, Helena Montana is a good example of where cost Civil War there was a growing and healthy black population in Montana but then eventually color lines became drawn in Montana and the whites stop allowing blacks into their towns after dark and eventually all the black folks left and there are very few left in Montana now

Section 3

the federal government also started to adopt these black subordination sentiments, especially when Woodrow Wilson came to office as he was a proponent of segregation. A lot of black federal workers were demoted and all the bathrooms were segregated and such. FDR grew up in this administration

Section 4

racial zoning meeting at the local city level creating zones or making

Section 5

Barton Bartholomew of St. Louis was supposed to categorize every building has a city planner asshole as to determine how to prevent anything getting in the way a single-family homes

in St. Louis this was all a very thinly veiled racial Sony wear black residents were blocked out using industrial zones made to move into industrial zones or ensure that they were priced out a single-family home areas to maintain

about economic zone, in other words very thinly veiled racial zoning

Section 6

about economic zone, in other words very thinly veiled racial zoning

Frederick Law Olmsted Junior former head of the American city planning committee

the legal battles and how old is local zoning decisions were justified for economic reasons and sometimes the flu but sometimes it didn’t

Section 7

undesirable industrial stuff was put in black neighborhoods this made them lower quality in slums, and combined with not being allowed to move to white neighborhoods increase the polarization of desegregation

Chapter 4

Section 1

convincing white people to own homes part of a strategy to combat communism

encouraging home ownership became inseparable from encouraging segregation

Section 2

FHA and HOLC would not approve loans in redlined districts, private companies also wanted FHA approval

Section 3

FHA has explicit racial policy in downtowns

Section 4

FHA and VA explicitly limits suburbs to be white only (Levittown)

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