Tag: Negro

• August 20, 2019

  The FHA and Government Sponsored Racial Discrimination

  Before the creation of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) in 1934, relatively few Americans owned their homes. The FHA made home ownership possible for many Americans by introducing low down-payment, long-term fixed-interest, self-amortizing loans. In 1938, the creation of the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) provided a market for Federal Housing Authority (FHA) loans,…
• June 13, 2018

  James Baldwin on the White Man’s Necessity for a Nigger

  Hi, I’m a bit embarrassed that I have not dedicated a space on this blog to talk about one of my favorite intellectuals: James Baldwin. In 1965, Baldwin visited Cambridge University for a historic debate against the leading Conservative “intellectual”, William F. Buckley. The debate took place at the debating hall of Cambridge Union surrounded…
• March 10, 2018

  Detrimental Influences: Negro Encroachment

  In June of 1937, surveyors from the Federal government-sponsored Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) visited Philadelphia neighborhoods to warn banks away from lending in areas with large number of African Americans. These surveyors assessed the favorable and detrimental influences. Favorable: Good transportation. Detrimental: Negro encroachment. Read the surveys your self: West Philadelphia survey, South Philadelphia survey,…
• October 17, 2017

  Moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal

  At the height of the Detroit rebellion, on July 28, 1967, President Johnson appointed a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders to answer three basic questions about the riots: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? Mounting civil unrest since 1965 had spawned riots…