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ellenrr

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Mon May 4, 2015, 06:28 PM May 2015

Why Did Ferguson and Baltimore Erupt? Look to the Government-Backed History of Housing Segregation

"Following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last August, I wrote The Making of Ferguson, a history of the state-sponsored segregation in St. Louis County that set the stage for police-community hostility there. Virtually every one of the racially explicit federal, state and local policies of segregation pursued in St. Louis has a parallel in policies pursued by government in Baltimore."

http://inthesetimes.com/article/17897/why-did-ferguson-and-baltimore-erupt-look-to-the-government-backed-history

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