Half Empty or Half Full: Segregation and Segregated Neighborhoods 30 Years After the Fair Housing Act
Nancy A. Denton, State University of New York at Albany
Abstract
The year 1998 marks the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the last major civil
rights law passed during the 1960s. It is also the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Kerner
Report (Kerner Commission, 1998) on the violence that erupted in our cities in the same decade. In my
mind the two are closely linked because residential segregation so dramatically embodies the Report's
most famous words: "This is our basic conclusion: Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one Black,
one White -- separate and unequal."
Half
Empty or Half Full: Segregation and Segregated Neighborhoods 30 Years
After the Fair Housing Act (*.pdf)
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