TIME: 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET | PLATFORM: Zoom | REGISTER: bit.ly/358CPw9

Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and is responsible for our most severe social and economic problems. De jure segregation ― the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments ― promoted discriminatory patterns that continue to this day. Government policy supporting segregation has corrupted our criminal justice system, exacerbated economic inequality, and created large academic gaps between white and Black schoolchildren.  It is only after learning this history that we can be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.  

Join the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center for their virtual program with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He will outline how residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in the mid-twentieth century.