January 15, 2025

The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights

Building Radical Democracy

July 15, 2021
California Housing Discrimination

The ACLU News archive, dating back to 1945, documents the various forms of legalized housing discrimination leveled at Black people in Northern California, and also charts severe backlash to progress, whenever it was made. It provides a snapshot of the ways that businesses, the state, and individuals partnered to exclude Black people from the accumulation of wealth through dispossession and the denial of their means to secure a home.

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