Structural Segregation in the North – the New Haven Fence: NEW - TopicsExpress



          

Structural Segregation in the North – the New Haven Fence: NEW HAVEN — Dillard Bennett has lived for most of his life in the shadow of a 12-foot-tall chain-link fence that divides his public housing project from an adjacent suburb. He had to go the long way around to make a trip to a shopping center or to visit his pastor’s home. His family moved to New Haven from Georgia in 1959, seeking an escape from segregated buses and racial violence. Instead, they found what Mr. Bennett, who is black, called a signal that “hatred for black folks” endured: 1,500 feet of thickly woven metal, enclosing a cluster of public housing projects on three sides. Read more: nytimes/2014/07/12/nyregion/in-connecticut-breaking-barrier-between-a-suburb-and-public-housing.html?_r=0
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:56:49 +0000

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