Author of the color of law6/10/2023 Federal Housing Administration (FHA) approval, necessary to finance construction of low-cost subdivisions in Milpitas and elsewhere, explicitly prohibited home sales to Blacks. during the last century, the citizens of Milpitas incorporated their city and passed an emergency exclusionary zoning ordinance banning apartment construction and allowing only single family homes. In a scene that played out in many locales across the U.S. The white residents of rural Milpitas, California got wind in 1953 that the Ford Motor Company plant employing Stevenson and 250 other African Americans would be relocating to their town, and they quickly snapped into action. When Frank Stevenson came to work in Richmond, California during World War II, he found that little appetite existed for residential racial integration. By Brian Knudsen ( Click here to view the entire P&R issue)
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