… The maps that I described were color-coded. In the 1960s, when, for example, the police were enforcing segregation in Southern schools and colleges, the phrase “operating under color of law” was a very commonplace phrase that was used to describe officials, government officials, who used their official positions to act in unconstitutional ways to violate civil rights. What does the phrase “Color of Law” mean, and why did you choose this as the title of your book? Rothstein talked with Teaching Tolerance about the history and endurance of racial and residential segregation, the inadequacy of how we teach and learn about this topic, and our collective power to turn things around. Richard Rothstein’s 2017 bestseller The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America has captivated readers-and most certainly educators.
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