All community members are invited to the District 11 Book Club, hosted by Alder Bill Tishler. Alder Tishler will moderate a panel discussion on The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. The panel members will discuss the book and what Madisonians can do in the present day to combat the legacy of segregation.
The panelists scheduled to appear are:
- Kacie Lucchini Butcher, Director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History
- Katie Kołakowski, Real Estate Broker at City RE, Ambassador of Own It: Building Black Wealth
- Tiffany Malone, Co-Founder of Own It: Building Black Wealth and Realtor at Alvarado Group
- John Strange, Assistant Teaching Professor, UW-Madison and former Assistant City Attorney, City of Madison
Throughout the month of October, you can also view the Unjust Deeds traveling exhibit at Sequoya Library.
A limited number of copies of The Color of Law will be available to check out at the Ask Desk on a first-come, first-served basis.
About the book: In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation―that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.