White elected officials punished officials who proposed integrated housing

Evidence

After considerable controversy following the objections of white elected officials, which resulted in the firing of the FWA director who had proposed the project, it was nonetheless eventually greenlighted. When blacks began to move in, whites in the nearby neighborhoods rioted. The clash between whites and their new African American neighbors resulted in more than a hundred arrests and thirty-eight hospitalizations, almost all of which were among African Americans. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 195

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutions penalize those who raise race bias rather than the biased conduct — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 700; White election officials systematically blocked two million newly enfranchised Southern black women from voting — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 496; White families fled to suburbs rather than send children to integrated schools — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1187

Broader Connections

• White election officials systematically blocked two million newly enfranchised Southern black women from voting #exemplifies (0.90) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 496
• Institutions penalize those who raise race bias rather than the biased conduct #expands (0.85) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 700
• White families fled to suburbs rather than send children to integrated schools #qualifies (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1187