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The Color of Law

a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Nov 26, 2017voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This 2017 book explores the policies of the American government at the federal, state, and local levels by law (de Jure) have denied to African-Americans mortgages, equal wages, equal public educational opportunities. American history books studied in our educational systems have been written to suggest that all of the listed opportunities do not exist or if they do exist are not that important and exist not by government policy but just by accident (de facto). The book demolishes this mythology that discrimination is no longer that important or that African-Americans just do not work as hard as whites, etc. etc. Each page documents the rampant injustice to African-Americans that is perpetrated by government every day.