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Black Segregation In The 19th Century

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a. Government policies turned black neighborhoods into overcrowded slums as a result white families came to associate African Americans with slum characteristics. Worst of all, white homeowner then fled when African Americans moved nearby, fearing their new neighbors would bring slum conditions with them. – (The Making of Ferguson, Richard Rothstein, http://prospect.org/article/making-ferguson-how-decades-hostile-policy-created-powder-keg) b. Government sponsored dual labor market that made suburban housing less affordable for black. Including zoning that defined ghetto boundaries within St. Louis, turning black neighborhood into slum. – (The Making of Ferguson. http://prospect.org/article/making-ferguson-how-decades-hostile-policy-created-powder-keg)

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