SOLD OUT! The Color of Law with Richard Rothstein - Metropolitan Planning Council

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SOLD OUT! The Color of Law with Richard Rothstein

December 7, 2017, 5 to 7 p.m. CT

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Metropolitan Planning Council
140 S. Dearborn, Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60603

Hosted by: Metropolitan Planning Council

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“A powerful and disturbing history of residential segregation in America...One of the great strengths of Rothstein’s account is the sheer weight of evidence he marshals.” —New York Times Book Review

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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregationthat is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregationthe laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.

Richard will be in conversation with Jennifer White, host of WBEZ's Morning Shift

Copies of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America will be available for purchase at the event.

Doors open at 5 p.m. The program will begin at 5:30 p.m., with time to mingle before and after. $15 registration includes snacks, wine and beer. Space is limited, so please register in advance.

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Metropolitan Planning Council 140 S. Dearborn St.
Suite 1400
Chicago, Ill. 60603
312 922 5616 info@metroplanning.org

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