Federal policy publicly subsidized private resegregation even as desegregation efforts advanced.

Evidence

At the very time there was growing desegregation – or at least explicit effort – in the public sphere, one could say there was publicly subsidized resegregation in the private. Desegregation never stood a chance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 380

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the separate-spheres argument in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ about public vs. private regulation of bodies — here the private sphere (housing) actively reversed public desegregation. — connects to: Judicial desegregation policies prospered in politics’ absence. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 113; Private religious schools served as a vehicle for evading desegregation orders — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 249