Week 9 Post 2

 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 that sold to black people, and violence was targeted at African-Americans living on borders between black and white neighborhoods. Chicago experienced some of the worst racial violence in the country, with fifty-eight firebombs set off on black homes between 1917 and 1921. In 1919, a white person stoned a black child and left him to drown after he floated to close to a whites-only beach. The race riots that followed the attack left thirty eight Chicagoans dead. There were similar circumstances all over the country, in Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle, and many other major cities. 

    Some states, like Kentucky, had KKK presence when black families tried to move into all-white neighborhoods. It was not a problem exclusive to one area, the entire country inflicted violence against African-Americans trying to find housing, with the tamest being yelled insults from mobs, all the way to arson, bombing, and gunshots of black homes. Areas that are highly diverse today, such as Chicago and Detroit, were centers of racial violence and race riots during attempts at integration during the twentieth century. Without any reparations paid to the families of the people who were victims of this violence, the United States sits on an unresolved history of racism. 

    

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  1. Ms. DunleyMay 11, 2023 at 9:21 AM

    Please change it so that the first sentence does not mention a chapter but introduces the topic itself.

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  2. Ms. DunleyMay 11, 2023 at 12:01 PM

    Thank you for the edit.

    How have things changed since WWII and how have they stayed the same with racial discrimination in housing practices?

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    1. Sofia ReamMay 15, 2023 at 11:19 AM

      Since WWII, housing segregation got worse before it got better. The second great migration caused an influx of African Americans in northern cities. There was much more hostility toward african-americans in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The civil rights act of 1968 started to be implemented in the 70s, however until the late 90s there were still some places were leasing codes would not lease to African Americans because people simply didn't feel like updating their terms. Even though law does not enforce segregation anymore, lasting effects of economic barriers have kept African Americans in the same neglected areas they were forced into by racial zoning.

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