1. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?
(a) Refugees from sharecropping.
(b) Lower- and middle-class families.
(c) The working poor.
(d) Indigent people.

2. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Revised it to make it more inclusive.
(b) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(c) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(d) Used the plan anyway.

3. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War I.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) World War II.

4. What does Rothstein say the federal government’s role was in segregation after Reconstruction?
(a) It fought it with one hand and encouraged it with the other.
(b) It encouraged it.
(c) It helped hide it.
(d) It fought it.

5. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?
(a) Guerilla warfare.
(b) Expiration of a treaty period.
(c) Presidential election.
(d) Demonstrable improvements in integration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein call the practice of fanning racist fears to drive whites out of their homes to buy the homes cheap and sell them to black families at high prices?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. What kind of developments was New Orleans Mayor DeLesseps Morrison told that the FHA wanted?

4. Why was Gerald Cohn of San Francisco investigated by the FBI?

5. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?

(see the answer key)

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