![]() Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). Please click the link below to join the webinar: This program is made possible thanks to funding from the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation and SC Humanities. Want to read along? Copies are available in book, eBook and eAudiobook formats. ![]() ![]() In the book, he describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation with: undisguised racial zoning public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. Bobby Donaldson, Director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina. ![]() Hear from author Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, during a moderated discussion with Dr. Richland Library is hosting the third of four virtual sessions on the book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America in partnership with the City of Columbia, Historic Columbia, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research, and other local organizations. ![]()
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