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irisblue

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 05:53 AM Jun 2020

How Redlining Built White Wealth, a long and interesting read [View all]


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Source--https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/how-red-lines-built-white-wealth-color-of-law-lesson

snip--"This lesson, “How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century,” introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility — and contributed to the absurd injustice of the modern wealth gap."


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