Week 3 Post 2

 Week 3 Post 2- formal synthesis

    This week I researched racial zoning in the private sector. While we spent last week researching the history of segregation in government funded housing, this week was spent with the history of private housing's segregated history. The chapter began with an overview of what as known as sundown towns, towns that were majority or usually completely white, who threatened black people not to spend the night there with the assumption they would be murdered. There were many cities outside of the south that were integrated and had no problem with it until the early twentieth century, when state legislatures began making Jim Crow laws, causing cities like Helena, Montana, to drive out a majority of its black population. The 1910s brought race-based segregation in cities in the Midwest and northeast, mainly consisting of banning black families from moving onto fully white blocks and vise-versa. Many government officials claimed that segregation was necessary to prevent racial tensions and violence. When new developments were made segregated, black only neighborhoods were zoned for strip clubs and liquor stores, while these were not permitted in white neighborhoods. Zoning boards also permitted things like toxic waste plants and landfills in African American neighborhoods, and it was found in a recent study that African Americans live near toxic waste centers eighty nine percent more than the median. Although president Clinton signed an ordinance to try and equalize the number of plants in predominately white and black neighborhoods, he did nothing about the already existing plants.

    The segregation of these neighborhoods was one hundred percent okay with the federal government. Although some of these cases of neighborhood segregation were appealed to the supreme court, majority of them were still upheld in majority northeast cities. The segregation was only exacerbated by the zoning allowance of things such as liquor stores and strip clubs in black neighborhoods. The differences in quality of white neighborhoods and black neighborhoods became so evident and so prominent that it is impossible not to notice inequalities that still exist today. 

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  1. Ms. DunleyApril 27, 2023 at 8:02 AM

    Can you edit this so it does not refer to a specific chapter and does not use the work we in this context? This is just the informational post. Thanks!

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    1. Sofia ReamMay 15, 2023 at 10:55 AM

      yes, just went through and edited all of those.

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