Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America  2/24/22
Channel: Mechanics' Institute
Date: 2022-02-25

Author Gene Slater in conversation with Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor of Architectural and Urban History at California College of the Arts, Oakland and San Francisco -- Cosponsored by AIA-SF & Heyday Books.


Freedom to Discriminate uncovers realtors’ definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative ideology. Drawing on confidential documents from leaders of the real estate industry, Gene Slater reveals how realtors systematically created and justified residential segregation.


Programming in "Civil Rights, Artistic Diversity, Historical Reckoning: Exploring the Film, Literature, and Lives of Marginalized Communities" has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.