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Preface and Chapter 1, If San Francisco, then Everywhere?, pages vii to 16

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright Press, 2017. Hardcover edition.

• Rothstein says that when the riots happened in Ferguson in 2014, and in Baltimore, Charlotte and Milwaukee, people thought they were familiar with those segregated neighborhoods, and understood them as “de facto” segregated, meaning that the people had made private decisions to live in segregated neighborhoods (vii).

• De jure segregation, on the other hand, happens through acts of the legislature or government policy.

• Rothstein says that de facto segregation happens when people’s racial prejudices drive their behavior, and whites move away from a neighborhood when blacks move in.

• This phenomenon starts a spiral, where real estate agents will steer whites away from black neighborhoods, and...

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