Redlining and Neighborhood Displacement in U.S. History

 Week 10 Post 3- Reflection Final Reflection! I will probably post some more notes on my blog, but this is the last official week of posts. I had a big chapter to tackle this week called suppressed incomes, but I made it through and got a lot of great notes. This chapter covered a lot of different things, but its main big categories were sharecropping, great migration, unions, hiring discrimination, tax discrimination, and the FEPC, and how these all related to continuing oppression. Some of my favorite parts of this book were all the photos that were included. There weren't too many that they dominated, but each chapter usually sprinkled in a couple and they added so much. This chapter brought some really interesting facts about the presidency and its connection to continuing racism in the U.S. This book has shown several examples of the disinterest in several different executive officials in solving the residential racism problems the country was facing, but specifically how pres...

 Week 10 Post 2- Formal Synthesis     This week's research focused on the suppressed incomes of African Americans. In summary, this research analyzed the effects of African Americans being excluded from unions and certain job networks, as well as strategies used to tax them higher. The chapter began with an explanation of sharecropping and indentured servitude, practices used commonly during reconstruction because they were slavery in another form, forcing African Americans to pay high prices for lodging that meant that they made no money from the work they did on plantations. The first section of this chapter also touched on generational wealth and lack thereof, explaining that regardless of race, it is very unlikely to be in a higher tax bracket than your parents. The chapter then explained the two great migrations, which brought in total almost 5 million African Americans from Southern states to the north for job opportunities and better treatment. ...

 Week 9 Post 3- Reflection      This week's chapter was called state-sanctioned violence and it was about how black families faced violence for moving into areas that were predominately white or working on integration. This chapter was interesting but disturbing, some of the acts committed against these families were absolutely insane and it truly shocked me the lengths white people would go to to try and keep their neighborhoods segregated. The chapter went through a ton of examples, but one of the most shocking was the instance in Shively, an all-white suburb in Kentucky, where a white man signed a deed on a house for his black friend, Andrew Wade, and his family. As soon as the family moved in a mob gathered on the lawn, throwing rocks, burning crosses, and firing gunshots at the house, but only Wade was arrested for 'breaching the peace'. Braden, the man who signed the deed for the Wades house, was arrested for conspiracy and sentenced to fifteen years, but ...

 Week 9 Post 2- Formal Synthesis      African Americans experienced extreme violence when trying to move into white dominated areas in the twentieth century. One example of this comes from a black man working in Northern California during wartime, a circumstance that has been explored multiple times in the book in different racist situations. Wilbur Gary and his family moved out of temporary wartime housing after World War II ended, and with little options in the area for African-Americans, got an agent to sell them a house in all-white Rollingwood. Their house attracted a mob of three hundred people who threw bricks at the house and burned crosses in the yard. The NAACP assisted in escorting Gary and his wife to work and his children to school, but riots continued for another month since the town sheriff wouldn't step in. There are countless examples of this same situation in other cities such as Philadelphia. In Chicago, white citizens began boycotting businesses t...

 Week 10 Post 1- Notes Chapter 10- Suppressed Incomes The explanation most common used for de facto segregation is that black people could not afford the same housing as white people, but we cannot just say this and not look at government policies that intentionally kept black income down in the twentieth century  Income is typically generational, and regardless of race, it is incredibly rare to make more money than your parents  Many cities taxed African Americans higher than whites  Long after slaves were emancipated black people were still barred from the free market economy  Share cropping became a popular way to employ African Americans in the south, as well as indentured servitude. Because these workers were eating and living on white plantations, the white people fifnt actually pay them, in fact sometimes they owed more to their employers than their salary  Sherriffs woyld arrest and assault sharecroppers who tried to leave their farms to keep the sy...

 Week 8 Post 2- Formal Synthesis     There were several strategies used by various U.S. cities to segregate neighborhoods while avoiding explicit anti-segregation legislation. There are many examples of strategies used by various U.S cities to continue to segregate their neighborhoods while evading anti-segregation legislation. The chapter began with a continuation of a story that began the book, of black Ford plant workers in northern California and their struggle to find fair housing. The suburb of Milpitas had been constructed for white Ford workers, but of course, being sponsored by the FHA, was whites only. An up-and-coming businesses man decided he wanted to create an integrated community in the Santa Clara County for people of color working at the Ford plant. When board members discovered this, the developer was met with incredible amounts of backlash, and had to fight every loophole city officials jumped through to try and prevent his development from being built....

 Week 9 Post 1- Notes Chapter- State-Sanctioned Violence Wilbur Gary lived in Northern California in a temporary wartime development since he was in the navy. When he needed to move out of the temporary housing, he bought a rolling wood home and the rolljngwoof improvement association insisted their covenant allowed them to kick his family out. When they offered to buy him home from him for 15 percent more, Gary refused  300 whites showed up on their lawn, throwing brick at the home and burning crosses  The NAACP and a communist civil rights group helped guard the house and escort the family to school and work since the town sheriff wouldn’t step in Eventually the state district attorney stepped in, but riots continued for another Month Levitt was at the same time building Shelley, a suburb of Philadelphia that was supported by the FHA only if they refused to sell to AAs White homeowners in places like Levittown that were whites only would rather sell to black families, w...

 Week 8 Post 3- informal reflection     This weeks chapter was a big one, but one of my favorites. This chapter was called local tactics, and it was focused on cities and their various policies for trying to segregate communities while working around not being able to do actual racial zoning. This chapter had one of my original interests when starting this topic, which was the interstate highway system and how it was used in segregation. There were so many examples in this chapter from major cities and the slum areas they completely destroyed for highways, and the confessions of many builders that this was intentional. The chapter started with an in-depth look at some northern California suburbs, and the many attempts at creating integrated suburbs, all the basically failed until the project could not be continued, a pattern of suburb building for integrated communities all over the country. This chapter also went over a lot of words that were used as hidden racism, such ...