Keynote Event: Richard & Leah Rothstein Presentation & Discussion
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5:30-8:00 PM (doors open 5PM)
Onsite childcare available. Please register in advance.
Authors Leah Rothstein & Richard Rothstein (author of The Color of Law) at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington present about their book, JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law.
What: Presentation & discussion followed by a reception with book signing, food, music and cash bar.
When: April 1st, 5:30 to 8:00pm
(doors open at 5pm; presentation starts at 5:30pm; reception is 7-8pm).
Where: Main Street Landing, 1 Main Street, Burlington, Vt.
Join the Just Action Book Club to get a free copy of the book and participate in Zoom discussion groups March 11 and/or March 25 to prepare for this event: request a copy of the book here or check out our Book Club event page to learn more.
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This FREE event is brought to you by the Vermont Human Rights Commission in collaboration with the Fair Housing Project of CVOEO. It is made possible by Fair Housing Month sponsors and partners, with special gratitude to event host Main Street Landing, Vermont Wine Merchants, The Skinny Pancake, and Vermont Housing Finance Agency.
This event is for housing advocates and anyone who wants to help make positive change in their communities to increase housing equity, justice, and opportunity for all!
Childcare with art activities is provided thanks to ONE Arts Community School. Please register here by Friday, March 29 if you would like to bring children.
Phoenix Books will have copies of Just Action and The Color of Law for sale.
Presentation summary: Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems. We’ve taken no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy. Just Action describes how we can begin to address this, providing dozens of strategies local groups can pursue to redress segregation in their own communities. By starting with achievable local victories, we can build a national movement that can remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.
SCHEDULE:
5:00 PM Doors Open
5:30 PM Introduction and Fair Housing Month overview
Presentation & Q&A
7:00 PM Book Signing & Happy Hour with free refreshments, cash bar and music
8:00 PM Event closes
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law is the groundbreaking new book that moves beyond the historical analysis of segregation as presented in Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, published in 2018. While The Color of Law showed how federal, state, and local governments created and reinforced neighborhood segregation, Just Action takes a bold step forward, offering practical strategies to tear down these systemic barriers.
ABOUT RICHARD ROTHSTEIN
Richard Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law and author of THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. He also writes a regular column to which you can subscribe for free at JustAction.substack.com. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found at his web page at the Economic Policy Institute.
ABOUT LEAH ROTHSTEIN
Leah Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law that describes how local community groups can redress the wrongs of segregation. She also writes a regular column to which you can subscribe for free at JustAction.substack.com. Leah has worked on public policy and community change, from the grassroots to the halls of government. She led research on reforming community corrections policy and practice to be focused on rehabilitation, not punishment. She has been a consultant to nonprofit housing developers, cities and counties, redevelopment agencies, and private firms on community development and affordable housing policy, practice, and finance. Her policy work is informed by her years as a community organizer and labor organizer, working on issues such as housing, environmental justice, workplace safety, and youth leadership.