![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I have to admit that reading this book, the geographic scope, the longevity, the sheer creativity of these policies really took me by surprise. SHAPIRO: So the basic argument of your book is that while racist individuals might have contributed to housing segregation in specific cases, there was an overwhelming amount of government policy at the state, local and federal level that explicitly forced black people to live in different places from white people. Rothstein's new book is called "The Color Of Law: A Forgotten History Of How Our Government Segregated America." Welcome to the program. Even today, black and white people generally don't live in the same neighborhoods. Today, schools remain largely segregated, and the author Richard Rothstein argues that's because housing is segregated. This is the day in 1954 that the Supreme Court issued its famous ruling desegregating schools, Brown versus Board of Education. ![]()
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