What is the connection between housing segregation and school segregation? That is, it’s segregation that is imposed by government, by law. Of course, the theme of the book is that we have de jure segregation, not de facto segregation. The book’s cover is a redlining map created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in the 1930s, a federal government agency that colored red the neighborhoods where African Americans lived, indicating these were neighborhoods that would be too high-risk for federal mortgage guarantees. … The maps that I described were color-coded. In the 1960s, when, for example, the police were enforcing segregation in Southern schools and colleges, the phrase “operating under color of law” was a very commonplace phrase that was used to describe officials, government officials, who used their official positions to act in unconstitutional ways to violate civil rights. What does the phrase “Color of Law” mean, and why did you choose this as the title of your book? Rothstein talked with Teaching Tolerance about the history and endurance of racial and residential segregation, the inadequacy of how we teach and learn about this topic, and our collective power to turn things around. Richard Rothstein’s 2017 bestseller The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America has captivated readers-and most certainly educators.
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