“From Restrictive Covenants to Redlining: The National History of Housing Segregation”
Montgomery History, in partnership with MoCoLMP
Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. on Zoom
A virtual talk with Paige Glotzer, Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, and author of How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960.
This presentation contextualizes Montgomery County within a national history of housing segregation. Beginning with restrictive covenants and nuisance laws, it traces the people, policies, and tools that made segregation an inescapable part of the American landscape. Topics include housing discrimination and violence, redlining, and urban renewal, as well as the relationship between race and property values. It also asks why housing segregation remained profitable even as attitudes about inequality changed.
Audience members are invited to consider the hidden legacies of old practices and how they still impact the US today. There will be a Q&A after the presentation.
MoCoLMP will be leading a follow-up, hands-on workshop on removing racially restrictive covenants on Saturday, Dec. 7th from 3-4:40 p.m., in Silver Spring.
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