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The president of the United States from 1945 to 1953, and the successor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. While Truman tried to encourage integrated public housing and ensure “racial equity” through its construction, his efforts failed: his administration (and those after him) continued building segregated public housing, and specifically turned to building the “massive segregated high-rise projects” that are most commonly associated with public housing in the United States today.
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Harry Truman Character Timeline in The Color of Law
The timeline below shows where the character Harry Truman appears in The Color of Law. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: Public Housing, Black Ghettos
In 1949, President Harry Truman proposed building new public housing, which precipitated a political fight about whether to prohibit segregation...
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Just before leaving office, Truman enacted “a new ‘racial equity formula’” that forced cities to build housing for the low-income...
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