LWVCC Book Club, January 19

Join Jane Santogrossi and other LWVCC members via Zoom on Thursday, January 19 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm to discuss The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein.  
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​Mr. Rothstein debunks the assumption that American cities are racially divided because all parties prefer it that way, or because of class differences.

Instead, he documents that it was due to laws and policies passed by local, state, and federal governments over many decades. Beginning with the Great Migration in the 1920s, such policies created the impoverished neighborhoods that still exist today.
 
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has written extensively on race and education.

Contact Annette Lansford for more Book Club information.

Book Club Zoom Link