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How the US Government Segregated America

H. Patricia Hynes Portside
The Federal Housing Administration, created in 1934 during the New Deal, forced newly built suburbs to be racially exclusive through guaranteeing whites-only mortgages. This, and subsequent policies, were major drivers of racial wealth disparity.

Paul Buhle and the Rise of Socialist Comics

Paul Von Blum The Progressive
The historian has been at the forefront of telling the lost stories of U.S. radicalism—in comic book form—for nearly two decades.

How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America

Ruth Milkman Dissent
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021 The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration still with us today

Indiana University Graduate Workers Submit Cards, Seek Union Election

Patrick McGerr The Herald-Times
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America submitted 1,584 union cards to the Indiana University last week, representing almost two-thirds of the roughly 2,500 graduate students working at IU.