The Importance Of Segregation In The United States

Private properties had formerly segregated neighborhoods long before the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) contributed to the suburbanization of whites. Property owners and builders prohibited future house resales to African-Americans by positioning an infinite number of barriers. Advocators for these barriers genuinely believed that racial exclusions would further improve their property values. However, conversely, in 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that private properties could not rely on the power of the government to enforce segregation upon African-Americans and other minority groups. Because of this, the FHA and other federal organizations avoided the ruling thus allowing state and local segregation for more decades to