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BlueWI

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4. My home town.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2019, 05:40 AM

Sep 2019

We lived on 30th and Lake for years. Got to experience the court mandated integration plan in the 70s.

The challenges continue - but the article is a striking reminder of how deep the virulent racism went. Even when I grew up in the 70s, the differences in safety were obvious when you went through white neighborhoods.

It was definitely an education I will never forget about the collusion of so-called polite society - banks, retail stores, city government, and real estate - with the crimes against humanity perpetrated against black people.

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The Most Segregated City [View all] yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2019 OP

Omaha also has a public school district separate from the city school district that incorporated WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2019 #1

This kind of red-lining is the vilest kind of thing to do to other people. mapol Sep 2019 #2

Rec -I saw this on kos - very good read lunasun Sep 2019 #3

My home town. BlueWI Sep 2019 #4

Good history article but zero insight into how and why it is re-segregating Amishman Sep 2019 #5