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Socially Engineering Unsafe Cities Does Not Make One Morally SuperiorActually, today's black poverty situation began centuries before FDR was born,Holy shit. A left winger has actually seen the black poverty situation today actually started with FDR and the democrats back during the new deal years. It's almost like they didn't want blacks out of slavery they just needed a new set of chains for them.
Slavery. Essential Questions Why were African Americans more desirable as slaves than indentured servants or Native Americans? What sort of conditions. - ppt download
By the time FDR took office he was opposed by a conservative coalition in congress composed of racist, southern Democrats and reactionary Republicans looking to preserve the US as it existed prior to 1933.
His public housing policies were caught between "liberals" who wanted segregated public housing construction and "conservatives" who wanted NO public housing construction. (At least for non-whites)
"In the Great Depression, many lower-middle class and working-class families lost their home. They couldn’t keep up with their payments.
"So the Public Works Administration constructed the first civilian public housing ever in this country.
"Initially, it was primarily for white families in segregated white projects, but at some point, a few projects were built for African-Americans in segregated African-American projects.
"This practice often segregated neighborhoods that hadn’t previously been that way.
"In Langston Hughes’ autobiography, he describes how he lived in an integrated neighborhood in Cleveland. His best friend in high school was Polish.
"He dated a Jewish girl.
"That neighborhood in Cleveland was razed by the WPA, which built two segregated [ones], one for African-Americans, one for whites.
"The Depression gave the stimulus for the first civilian public housing to be built. Were it not for that policy, many of these cities might have developed with a different residential pattern.
Read more: The Racial Segregation of American Cities Was Anything But Accidental | History | Smithsonian
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So what? Baseball is segregated into major and minor leagues.