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Blockbusting was how, post-integration, realtors would rile up a community to get white homeowners to sell once a black family moved in the neighborhood, and in turn would sell the houses to other black family, accelerating outmigration from the center city. ( Blockbusting in Chicago, from the Encyclopedia of Chicago History; White flight, from Wikipedia)

This "notice" I found on my door the other week is likely a more modern version of the same kind of bottom feeding by real estate interests.

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Blockbusting was how, post-integration, realtors would rile up a community to get white homeowners to sell once a black family moved in the neighborhood, and in turn would sell the houses to other black family, accelerating outmigration from the center city.

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Madonna Gage
Cypress, CA

When I grew up in Atlanta in the 1960's, "Block Busting" was the cause of much of the white fear in the city. It was believed that if a black family moved on the block, the value of the houses would go down. My father, who was white, believed that many black families could not afford the houses without support from the NAACP. As a result, we moved at least 12 times when I was in high school.

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"Block Busting" started the race war - The Race Card Project

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Madonna Gage Cypress, CA When I grew up in Atlanta in the 1960's, "Block Busting" was the cause of much of the white fear in the city. It was believed that if a black family moved on the block, the value of the houses would go down.

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During chapter 2 Belvin and Betty buy a house in a predominantly white neighborhood, and Norris talks about growing up with racist neighbors, and other challenges she had to deal with. She talks about how her sisters got in trouble for taking apples that had fallen from the neighbors' apple tree into their yard. She also talks about shoveling more snow than any of the neighbors during the winter, and how her family worked hard in order to feel equal and superior to their white neighbors at the time.

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In chapter 1, Norris talks about the impact her father had on her life, and how he had an ever positive attitude despite the racism in the era. She then talks about how her father got cancer and how devastating the diagnosis was. She also tells a story about two white ladies who were being extremely rude to them in the airport. She showed that even when her father was sick he didn't reprimand the women who were cruelly laughing at him.

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Interview With Marshals forced to execute Desegregation

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Interview With Marshals forced to execute Desegregation

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Certain pictures from the civil rights era are burned into the nation's collective memory: black college students braving jeering crowds to integrate all-white campuses; little girls dressed in their Sunday best, wading through a sea of racial hatred.

In most of those photos, barely inside the frame, there are men in dark suits and white armbands. They're deputies from the U.S. Marshals Service - federal enforcers of court-ordered desegregation.

NPR's Michele Norris, host of All Things Considered, talks with former U.S. Marshals Don Forsht and Al Butler. They were part of a special team recruited to carry out desegregation orders in the 1950s and '60s. Their work took them to the major Southern hotspots during the campaign of massive resistance, such as Little Rock, Birmingham and Oxford. In city after city, when the showdown over desegregation hit the schoolhouse door, marshals like Forsht and Butler were there to protect black children trying to enroll at all-white schools.

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NPR's Michele Norris talks with former U.S. marshals Don Forsht and Al Butler, who were part of a special team recruited to carry out school desegregation orders in the 1950s and '60s. Their work took them to all the southern hotspots during the campaign of massive resistance.

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"Blacks often feel the dispiriting burden of being perceived willy-nilly as representing an entire race.  The idea made my head hurt, and it still does if I dwell on it too much....  Whether the responsibility is an honor or a burden, I accept it as a fact of life. Whenever I feel the anxiety, I hear my parents: my father telling me, 'Wake up and smell the opportunity,' and my mother saying, 'Snap out of it.' Norris, Pg. 22 (Chapter 2)

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"I didn't do any of that. I am my father's daughter, and such caustic gestures weren't in my DNA. I was raised by a model minority to be a minority, to achieve that status, certain impulses had to be suppressed. Years later, I understand both the reason and its consequences." Norris, (pg.9) (Chapter 1)