“zoning laws and racial covenants become the expression of settler colonialism to determine the use and value of land based on racial histories.”
—soyica diggs colbert
—soyica diggs colbert
“zoning laws helped to install the conceptual framework of settler colonialism via segregation. as with the history of settler colonialism, vigilante justice supplemented the law.”
“in the 1950s and 1960s, when black residents attempted to integrate white neighborhoods in birmingham due to the low inventory of housing in black neighborhoods, violence followed, resulting in the city’s designation bombingham.”
“birmingham was not alone in its double-pronged approach to maintaining segregation after the supreme court’s second ruling in brown v. board of education that explored how to implement school desegregation.”
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