Richard Rothstein presents The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein presents The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America

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Richard Rothstein presents The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America.

Part of the Connect + Build Series presented by NW Natural

In partnership with 1000 Friends of Oregon and The Oregonian

Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. The book expands upon and provides a national perspective on his recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation, as in his report, The Making of Ferguson.

He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008) and Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (2004). He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America’s Student Achievement (1998). Other recent books include The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (co-authored in 2005); and All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (co-authored in 2003).


Portland Housing Month to feature housing experts on housing, race and class
October’s Portland Housing Month will feature a series of webinars, demonstrations and presentations on all aspects of housing. These webinars are complimentary.

 

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https://www.housingmonthpdx.com/events/2020/webinar-the-color-of-law-a-forgotten-history-of-how-our-government-segregated-america 

 

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