Virtual Book & Author Program: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

This program is free, but reservations are required.

Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most severe social and economic problems. It corrupts our criminal justice system, exacerbates economic inequality, and produces large academic gaps between white and Black schoolchildren. It is only after learning the history of this policy that we can be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.

Join this virtual program with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as he outlines how residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in the mid-twentieth century.