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Segregation adversely affected both black and white homeownership rates, [61] as well as caused higher crime rates. [62] Areas with housing segregation had worse health outcomes for both whites and Blacks. [63] Residential segregation accounts for a substantial share of the Black-white gap in birth weight. [64] Segregation reduced upward ...
This era is sometimes referred to as the nadir of American race relations because racism, segregation, racial discrimination, and expressions of White supremacy all increased. So did anti-Black violence, including race riots such as the Atlanta race riot of 1906, the Elaine massacre of 1919, the Tulsa race massacre of 1921, and the Rosewood ...
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In the fury's wake, white supremacists overthrew the city government, expelling black and white officeholders, and instituted restrictions to prevent Blacks from voting. In Atlanta in 1906, newspaper accounts alleging attacks by black men on white women provoked an outburst of shooting and killing that left twelve Blacks dead and seventy injured.
The perception of decreasing anti-Black discrimination has been correlated with white people's belief in rising anti-white discrimination. [5] A survey in Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s found that most white respondents (80%) thought it was likely that a white worker might lose a job or a promotion to a less qualified Black worker, while most ...
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A white police officer placed his knee on the neck of a black man pinned to the ground. This arrest took place not on the streets of a city in the United States but in Paris, on May 28 — just ...