Atlanta realtors formally obligated themselves not to sell to blacks in white areas
Evidence
Like other local boards nationwide, the Atlanta Real Estate Board took the equation of black ownership and neighborhood decay to heart and stood on guard against such sales. In 1946, for instance, board president A. H. Sturgess confided that his member realtors were “under obligation not to sell to Negroes in predominantly white areas.” — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 147
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the same professional-obligation structure as the FHA policy; local-level instantiation of national segregation norms relevant to reader’s case study. — connects to: Federal housing policy denied black Americans wealth-building opportunities available to whites — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 353; Professional real-estate doctrine convinced white homeowners that black entry destroyed property values — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 148; Whites who sold to blacks faced threats and harassment from their own neighbors — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 220 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Professional real-estate doctrine convinced white homeowners that black entry destroyed property values
#expands(0.88) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 148 - Whites who sold to blacks faced threats and harassment from their own neighbors
#expands(0.80) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 220 - Federal housing policy denied black Americans wealth-building opportunities available to whites
#expands(0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 353 - Black realtors used the alternative title realtist because whites monopolized realtor.
#qualifies(0.75) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 152