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Housing discrimination thrives 50 years after Fair Housing Act tried to end it

  • Written by Prentiss A. Dantzler, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Colorado College
Fair housing protest in Seattle, Washington, 1964.Jmabel/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-ND

In the midst of riots in 1968 after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was slain, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act.

The federal legislation addressed one of the bitterest aspects of racism in the U.S.: segregated housing. It...

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