The Color of Law
Introduction + Context
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Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Epilogue
Themes
All Themes De Jure vs. De Facto Segregation Segregation and the Preservation of Racial Caste Racism, Profit, and Political Gain Separation of Powers, Legal Activism, and Minority Rights
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All Characters Bill Myers David Bohannon Frank Stevenson Franklin Delano Roosevelt Harry Truman Herbert Hoover Robert Mereday Vince Mereday The Supreme Court Wilbur Gary
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All Terms Blockbusting Boilermakers Brown v. Board of Education Buchanan v. Warley Contract buying system De Facto Default De Jure Fair Housing Act Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Ferguson, MO Fifth Amendment Ford Motor Foreclosure Fourteenth Amendment Ghetto Great Depression Hamburg, SC Home Equity IRS Lakeview Levittown Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Milpitas, CA NAACP Neighborhood composition rule New Deal Palo Alto Peninsula Housing Association Public Works Administration (PWA) Racial Caste System Reconstruction Redlining Red Shirts Restrictive Covenants Reverse Redlining Richmond, CA Rollingwood Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Sharecropping Shelley v. Kraemer Slum Subprime loans Tax-exempt status Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Thirteenth Amendment Underwriting Manual United Auto Workers (UAW) United Service Organizations (USO) Veterans Administration (VA) White flight
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The Color of Law

by

Richard Rothstein

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Homeownership

Since the 20th century, owning a home has been the most reliable path to and indicator of middle-class status in the United States. Even now, “equity that families have in their homes is the…

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