The FHA insured mortgages for virtually no black homeowners even where many existed

Evidence

In 1940, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured a loan to only one black American in Greensboro, North Carolina, despite the city having roughly thirteen hundred black homeowners. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 321

Categorization

• CANDY: One loan out of thirteen hundred eligible homeowners is a stark, memorable data point.