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A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American border near Niagara Falls holding Canadian passport No. 79551. It stated the bearer was a British national and a resident of Toronto. In fact, he was Solomon Plaatje, the first secretary-general of what would become the African National Congress — […]
Niknakc/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) US public housing was first designed as an explicitly racist program segregating whites and blacks, with geographic and financial advantages given to whites. Government housing policies during the Great Depression and after World War II created or enhanced segregation, laying groundwork for worsening disparities. Richard Rothstein, historian of public housing, says […]
US Army A federal district court judge has decided that Gardendale – a predominantly white city in the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama – can move forward in its effort to secede from the school district that serves the larger county. The district Gardendale is leaving is 48 percent black and 44 percent white. The new […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Growing up here in the 1940s and 1950s, Sevone Rhynes experienced segregation every day. He couldn’t visit the public library near his house, but instead had to travel to the “colored” library in the historically black area of Brooklyn, a neighborhood that used to be in the center of Charlotte. He attended a school […]
