KENNETH T. JACKSON

(Kenneth Terry Jackson)


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Kenneth T. Jackson

Previously, prejudices were personalized and individualized: FHA exhorted segregation and enshrined it as public policy. Whole areas of cities were declared ineligible for loan guarantees.
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“FHA” was the Federal Housing Administration. This federal agency de facto controlled the vast majority of the mortgage loans in America. The agency, under the control of racists, redlined black neighborhoods from obtaining mortgages and even worse discouraged mortgage loans even in affluent white areas if it was an affluent Negro family that wanted to buy a house there. {637259} and {637260} are quotations which are examples of FHA racist policies.

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Kenneth Terry Jackson (born 1939) is a professor of history and social sciences at Columbia University. A frequent television guest, he is best known as an urban historian and a preeminent authority on the History of New York City, where he lives on the Upper West Side.