We Can End Racial Segregation in America
For decades, government policy helped make segregation worse. But we can use the power of the government to reverse it in the twenty-first century.
2 Articles by: Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein is a distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.
How the Federal Government Deepened Segregation
Segregation wasn’t just the product of grassroots racism. It was furthered by decades of top-down federal policies.