Residential segregation in 1970s Mississippi mapped wealth and race onto a town’s geography.

Evidence

When I was eight years old or so, we moved from one side of my small hometown in Mississippi to the other. It was a journey of contrasts. On the east side of Moss Point (named after the Spanish moss that hangs from magnolia trees) lived, for the most part, working-class and poor black folk. People worked hard either at the shipyard or at the paper mill. Homes were relatively modest and poverty was always in sight. On the west side lived mostly white folk. There were a few prominent black families there, too. Mostly executives or mid-level managers of some sort, teachers, or politicians. The difference between the landscapes of these two sides was obvious. The west side had sidewalks instead of dirt pathways and neighborhoods with two-story waterfront houses. This was June of 1976. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 133

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Residential segregation by race persisted independent of class and education through 1970 — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3348; Metropolitan Detroit’s racial segregation made nearby towns feel like the Jim Crow South; White neighbors harassed Black homebuyers in racially integrated 1970s Mississippi. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 134 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Residential segregation by race persisted independent of class and education through 1970 — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3348; Metropolitan Detroit’s racial segregation made nearby towns feel like the Jim Crow South; White neighbors harassed Black homebuyers in racially integrated 1970s Mississippi. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 134 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Segregation shifted from within cities to between cities from the 1950s onward. #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 379