During the same period we were having riots in Baltimore, after MLK’s death,a number of mostly black shopping areas were burned, by rioters. This went on for three days. In the last year s of the Johnson administration, the election for governor featured a candidate that ran for the Democratic Party. His slogan, your home is your castle, protect it! An anti-open housing slogan, to say the least. The winning candidate was Spiro Agnew.Ernie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:55 pm After reading this story...
I was not aware that some northern cities in the last part of the 20th century, dealt with racist issues, just as much as many places in the south.
I was not aware that "mixed-marriages" bothered white people more than having blacks live in their neighborhood. (Or at least that is what they said.)
A question I have, Did African-Americans eschew interracial marriages as much as Whites in the last half of the 20th century?
Segregation persists to a degree in Baltimore, mostly in older neighborhoods. Newer neighborhoods, like mine, segregated from the beginning, hence no one could be seen as an invader. Fun Fact-a scandal arose when a baseball player that was traded to the Orioles , and could not find housing, largely due to racism. A straw purchaser bought what he wanted, there were no protests, I mean, do you want to get rid of Frank Robinson?
The first house my wife and I owned had a deed covenant that it could never be sold or rented to a black, Chinese or Jew. They were all declared “inoperative” by Marylands Supreme Court. The selling real estate agent got a charge out of that, it was one of my colleagues from work, and he had never sold one of those before. He happened to be black, this was 1985.
I don’t think there is much of that any more, but the former pastor of the C&MA church i attended found an excuse not to marry A gal from our church to a black man. She was married in New Jersey by a new Bible school grad from our church that had taken a church up there. When the old guy died, the guy from NJ was called, and a serious effort was made to stamp out the remaining raceism. Sadly, it was in general a failure.It was one of the factors that sank our former church.