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  • Living Apart

  • How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
  • By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
  • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
  • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (360 ratings)

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Living Apart

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Narrated by: Steven Menasche
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ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal government’s large-scale failure to uphold the laws meant to prevent it.

More than 40 years after President Johnson signed the landmark Fair Housing Act into law, residential segregation in America remains unresolved. Designed to help dismantle the nation’s racially divided housing patterns, the act has gone largely ignored by every presidential administration - Democrat and Republican alike - since 1968. In Living Apart, ProPublica investigates this failing, particularly how subsequent leaders, following President Nixon’s lead, have declined to use the billions in grant dollars awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development as leverage to fight segregation. Their reluctance to enforce a law passed by both houses of Congress and repeatedly upheld by the courts reflects a larger political reality. Again and again, attempts to create integrated neighborhoods have foundered.

This ebook includes an exclusive afterword by the author, as well as an appendix of original documents dating from the Nixon administration, revealing the internal politics swirling around the Fair Housing Act shortly after its enactment.

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The 1968 Fair Housing Act, passed in the aftermath of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, authorized the government to dismantle the nation’s segregated housing patterns. This investigation from ProPublica shows how the federal government failed to enforce the act, and at what cost. In performer Steven Menasche's smooth, even tones, Living Apart shows how Nixon squashed early desegregation programs, and explores the ongoing failures of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to follow up on the act. As a result of segregation, many African-American communities experience poorer health care, higher infant mortality, inferior schools, and other problems. Listeners with an interest in urban history and social justice will find this an eye-opening investigation of an under-explored topic.

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Great objective legal and historical research

well researched legal and historical work. starting with the early 1900s through LBJ, Nixon and Obama

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Very Informative.

This answers more than a few questions I've had about the places I've lived and the surrounding counties.

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Very informative.

Thoroughly researched, nicely organized and presented. I only hope the author will follow up with the issue as it stands today, because his account ends with Obama’s administration efforts.

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Eye-opening and informative

I found this book to be eye-opening and informative with regards to bias and housing within the United States. I am familiar with the work of the author, primarily the 1619 Project. In my opinion this book works well in tandem with that project.

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Excellent work and info!!

what an informative and truth told about dept of housing deception! loved the dedication to this hushed topic.

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Educational

I really enjoyed this book. it was very enlightening. I thought the narrator did a great job. Great job Ms. Hannah- Jones shredding light on HUD and America.

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enlightening information that gives evidence.

These facts are necessary to understand the historical opposition to freedom, justice and equality for minority human beings by a white controlled system.

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We’re racists

I suppose I should stop being astonished at how racist white America continues to be.

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Illuminating history

Though a bit dry (not my fav reader), this really illuminates the way the US government has supported racial segregation over decades. Hannah-Jones’s thorough investigative work (best appreciated by listening to the afterword) also led me to appreciate the heroic and incredibly unpopular efforts by Mondale and Romney.

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Informative

Very informative to learn from and listen to. Everyone should listen just to understand what had taking place back then in that error..

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