The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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The Impact of Segregation on Black People in California
Rothstein: Government efforts to ghettoize black people began in Progressive Era. He says they were militantly supported and expanded by FDR, his team of Democrats. Rothstein also documents the intermittent attempts by courts to forbid various segregation practices.
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