1. Dreams Deferred: Public Policy, Racial Discrimination, and Housing Hasan Kwame Jeffries, PhD The Ohio State University
Urban Studies Institute Session:  
History Speaks-- Exploring the Significance of Place
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Columbus, Ohio

2. The “Not-so-free-states” The Jim Crow North
Antebellum segregation
Post bellum Black Codes

3. The Promised Land? The Great Migration
Southern Exodus
Northern White Response

4. “Not my house, not my neighborhood:” Homeowners and Housing Discrimination
Refusal to sell
Restrictive covenants
Homeowners associations
Violence
White flight

5. “Sorry, we can’t help you:” Housing Industry and Racial Discrimination
Landlords
Real estate agents
Bankers
Insurance agents
Developers

6. Finding a way around: Dr. Ossian Sweet (1925)

7. A Raw Deal
The New Deal and the FHA

8. “De Jure or De Facto:” Public Policy and State Action
“Neighborhood Stability” (FHA Requirement 1940s)
Urban Renewal begins (1949)
Interstate highway program starts (1956)

9. “Dreams and Nightmares:” Creating the Suburbs
Public policy
Private development
Personal beliefs
Personal behavior

10. Concentrating Poverty
Public housing programs (1950s-1960s)

11. Cracking the Housing Market
Shelly v. Kraemer (1948)
Changing Hearts and Minds (1950s)
Looking for Jackie Robinson
Open Housing

12. “Choice was a white freedom” Housing and Opportunity