In Richmond, California, a black man named Frank Stevenson worked at Ford Motor Company and lived with his family in an apartment complex near the factory. In the first chapter, Rothstein explains that segregation was illegal but still existed in many cities.
Even today, governments are still actively segregating American cities to African Americans’ disadvantage. This segregation is responsible for African Americans being impoverished and blocked from homeownership. He claims it’s de jure rather than de facto and that it has been implemented by all levels of government. In The Color of Law, historian Richard Rothstein argues that segregation is not a natural phenomenon in the US. Selders, Jr.1-Page Summary of The Color of Law Overall Summary
Moderator: Alexis Smith, Executive Director, New Haven Legal Assistance. This event included an interview with Richard Rothstein, followed by a panel discussion and an opportunity for audience questions. This event offered a pre-talk reception at Mory's, a time-honored Yale institution, including an opportunity to meet the author! Substantial hors d'oeuvres and drinks were served, and books were available for sale.īook Talk and Panel Discussion, Yale Law School This event is co-sponsored at Trinity by the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Educational Studies, Multicultural Affairs, Political Science, Public Policy & Law, Sociology, and Professor Davarian Baldwin at Trinity College. Baldwin, and featuring the Connecticut research of Professor Jack Dougherty and his students, this event will explore Rothstein's extraordinary revelations about how the laws and policy decisions of local, state and federal governments actually promoted discriminatory housing patterns that continue to this day. Moderated by Trinity professor, historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America, Professor Davarian L. Open Communities Alliance, Trinity College, and their partners are honored to present historian Richard Rothstein discussing his groundbreaking new book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. These policies shaped our geographies and our lives - and many still persist today in more subtle forms. Racial, ethnic, and economic residential segregation today is no accident, but rather the result of intentional government policies, such as redlining, enforcing racial covenants, discriminatory lending, and outright segregation in federal programs. 
On September 12, 2017, Open Communities Alliance and its partners, including Trinity College, were pleased to present three opportunities to see historian Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, an examination of the government's central role in creating residential segregation.
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