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What policies and practices contributed to the segregation of people of color in America's neighborhoods?
Plans, policies, and practices of racial exclusion and disinvestment primarily targeting Black people.
What were some of the consequences of these policies and practices for Black people and other people of color?
They were denied access to well-resourced neighborhoods and left with failing schools, inadequate services, physical and environmental blight, and high levels of crime and violence.
What legal framework was used to systematically segregate people of color until the late 1940s?
Racially restrictive covenants, which legally prohibited African Americans from owning, leasing, or occupying homes in designated communities.
What was the Federal Housing Administration's role in creating patterns of racial segregation in America's neighborhoods?
Beginning in the 1930s, the FHA refused to insure mortgages in African American neighborhoods.
How did federal transportation investments contribute to residential segregation in America?
By facilitating automobile access among residents of predominantly white suburbs while constructing inner-city highways that cut through existing neighborhoods, often creating physical barriers that blocked Black communities’ access to downtown areas and other centers of economic opportunity.
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