On behalf of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, I am writing to invite you to their virtual program, THE COLOR OF LAW: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HOW OUR GOVERNMENT SEGREGATED AMERICA.
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2020
Time: 6:30 pm Central Time
Location: Zoom
Registration: Click Here
This program is free, but reservations are required.
Description: Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and is responsible for our most severe social and economic problems. De jure segregation ― the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments ― promoted discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. Government policy supporting segregation has corrupted our criminal justice system, exacerbated economic inequality, and created large academic gaps between white and Black schoolchildren. It is only after learning this history that we can be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.
Join the virtual program with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as he outlines how residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in the mid-twentieth century.
I greatly appreciate your consideration of the above! If you have any questions, please contact:
Meghan Gieseker | Education Associate
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center
Office: 847.967.4503
Meghan.Gieseker@ILHMEC.org
www.ilholocaustmuseum.org
Thank you very much,
April Bernard, PhD
