Race Matters: The Folks Next Door

A. Henderson

DOI:10.1353/rah.2001.0008

Corpus ID: 144583043

Race Matters: The Folks Next Door

@article{Henderson2001RaceMT,
  title={Race Matters: The Folks Next Door},
  author={A. Henderson},
  journal={Reviews in American History},
  year={2001},
  volume={29},
  pages={119 - 125}
}

A. Henderson

Published 2001

Political Science

Reviews in American History

In 1953, a University of Chicago Law Review article concluded: "Of all discriminations encountered by the Negro and other minority groups, none has proved more difficult to overcome than exclusion from housing." Readers might have construed this statement to mean that housing discrimination was largely a thing of the past. Indeed, only a few years earlier the Supreme Court had declared that judicial enforcement of restrictive covenants was unconstitutional. This pronouncement capped a long… CONTINUE READING

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