How the Federal Government Deepened Segregation
Segregation wasn’t just the product of grassroots racism. It was furthered by decades of top-down federal policies.
A wrecking crew begins the demolition of the last remaining high-rise building from the infamous Cabrini-Green housing project March 30, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
Richard Walker’s critique of my book The Color of Law asserts that:
the federal government (particularly the New Deal) built upon deeply embedded private racism in its housing policies, and therefore,
the New Deal should not be thought culpable for residentially segregating the nation.
We agree on the first point; as The Color of Law states,
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