White-Only Suburbs: The History You Didn't Learn 

So? A safe neighborhood then. Got it.

Love the old white America!

As a licensed real estate agent, the prejudice story is not being accurately taught. After WWII, black soldiers were most often denied loans for housing and education. The FHA, primary housing lender at the time, had many rules discriminating against non-Caucasian’s and non Christians. With inability to buy homes, and lesser education, the blacks were inherently denied the ability to build the wealth the discriminators had.

There are too many people who refuse to accept the reality of our past. Nobody is proud or happy about it but it happened.

This happened in cities also - New York City's "Stuyvesant Town" - a large, middle-class apartment complex in Manhattan that was specifically built to house returning WW2 Veterans. They would not rent to black veterans, or any blacks. It was however not a government project - it was funded by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

This is a perfect example of systemic Racism and government and bank funding.

The Indian woman is the last one to be talking about color. Their culture is about colorism. Light skinned vs dark skinned Indian. Let alone allowing their daughter to marry a black man. Why is she so surprised. Oh, I know why, she thought it would never happen to her. FYI, I've been married to an East Indian woman from singapore for 26 years. I'm black and love her family and they love me. My wife's father is from south indian.

This will not stop until this country is like South Africa.

and sadly, this still continues today. when i found out that tax dollars from black neighborhoods were going to white neighborhoods to better those communities, i was shocked. white residents feel black communities are not thriving due to black residents not caring about their communities and therefore refuse to put or request money from local gov to improve the community is a big lie. poverty and crime go hand in hand and all levels of gov made a mission of depriving black communities with the same benefits of white communities in order to keep a narrative going about black communities not being able to be taken care of by its residents. this is not true and many decades later, it's remains untrue.

What was the comparative crime rates between white and black communities?

Same thing in Canada especially in Toronto

The woman with the accent from India doesn’t sound that believable. She might be Brahman or from one of the upper castes. If America truly wanted to be racist, they should learn from India. They’ve been at it for centuries and has got it down to a science.

this happened all over america

Excellent video...thanks! I learned of this hideous practice in law school. When I was buying a property later, I asked the title company to send drafts of all documents I would be expected to sign or accept at closing at least 48 hours beforehand so I could review. I saw the exclusionary clause in the deed (as it was in every deed in the neighborhood), called the title agent and told her to remove it. Her reaction was "It's not enforceable now, and besides, you're Caucasian, so why do you care?" I replied, "I am well aware that it's not enforceable, but I am going to sell this property some day, and I don't want any potential buyer for whom it once applied to even see it." She grumbled a bit, but I insisted I would not close unless she did as I asked. As far as I know, no one has to accept a deed with that offensive language, so hopefully it will disappear in time.

Not that bad. I'm black btw for anyone wondering. Sometimes it's about wanting stability and being entitled to acceptance from a community that isn't yours. Yes it is about race. As a white or asian, try living in a black community.

All white suburbs. Where is this place at? Sounds like heaven to me.

This is America! No surprise!

Keep in mind it was the brave efforts of Black Americans that knocked down all these racist laws. I hope Ms. Israni realizes this.

I've lived my whole life denied the opportunity and support to buy a house. I was forced to live in apartments my whole life. After many years of working hard all my life have been forced out of the workforce and into homelessness. I don't deserve this. I deserve and have earned better.

This real American history.

We had an upscale neighborhood here long ago, the rich guy who owned it, gave it to the city, but put it in writing that blacks could not live in it for 100 years and they didn't, but as soon as that time expired they started in, now it is a dangerous place and has been for many years.

Same think in India happend , only upper cast suburbs .

Just been looking at videos of Detroit in the 50s and now. No need to say more.

It was Levitt, the developer, not the people who lived there that put that edict in.

Ever see free or subsidized housing when brand new ?? Two yrs later too unsafe to visit and destroyed....

I learned about this but DEFINITELY didn’t learn about it in school 😒

If you want to solve the problem,find its roots,first.

Oh but I DO know all about this, as the MCM neighborhood I live in was a ''new'' kind of development and was marketed to local academics that happened to be Jewish, because the FHA would not fund the project, it was using non-traditional building materials, post-war new developments in building, on slab, cinderblock etc. ...

That is violation of human right in its purest form !

If i had the chance to live in peace, i'd move there.

It is not over as some people claim. What happened 70 years ago had direct consequences on the security, prosperity and inheritance of citizens from neighborhoods designed differently.

As a Black US Citizen, IM NOT SHOCKED!!!

Excellent documentary! Thanks! Very eye opening!

Forget allowed they didn’t consider us even human

Reminds me of racist Martha's Vinyard

I am the grandson of Italian immigrants so of a military father we were poor lived in the projects in jersey city n j people looked down on us we couldn’t live in certain neighborhoods either I feel bad for the black folks but I believe it was more the money angle my family’s last alternative was my father went back into the military and we were raised army brats where everyone got along my story I’m not black but I know the life

I learned Compton CA used to be a white town from a tv show

White only suburbs this is a very good idea. Why only schools very good idea.

If jealousy wouldn’t have destroyed all of the Black thriving towns we could’ve stayed segregated and everyone could live their own lives. Leave folks alone!

Now look at America its become a basket case.

Excellent summary: homeownership dictates networth!

To the Far Right, they put this in the category of conspiracy theory (they don't want to hear this). But It's actually history. And history is something one can learn from to be a better people.

And if it's a black only neighborhood nobody bats an eye or has a problem with it .

good old days

This is heights of playing victim, it’s natural ppl gravitate towards their own ethnicity ppl cracking jokes understanding culture, not racists at all.

Good old times!

I work in Palo Alto area, I've met many nice people there. Still bump into some prejudice people who seem racist. Unfortunately, it's not only east Palo and Palo Alto. There's more areas around the bay area that are divided and it's not race anymore but rich vs poor now. It's not going too change that's just the way things work I guess.

As a realtor, I believe our reputation is tarnished from these actions til this day.

There were racists and bigots at the FHA. This is surprising?

People should have right to govern themselves and choose who to live with.

Its a very sad situation. Even today it exists in many parts of the world.

Financial Ability to pay, is the only disqualification that is acceptable today. Even with this, still not satisfied. Want equal outcome WITHOUT regard of ability to pay.

Thanks again for your video. I didn't know that some cities demolished black families neighborhoods to build highways.

Everyone knows this! Naturally, I didn't learn this inn school either..this is just one more open secret that we overlook!

Still Till This Dayy !!!

As a three year old Miss Angela lived better than she dies at age 57. She can still affird a house but no one will sell one to a black...

The Man of Sin is being revealed.

This is wonderful, should bring it back more and keep the tradition

This was a very interesting video. I learned a lot. It happened all over different places in the United States.

on 17:03:09 at 2023-10-24 - i got this vid at the first very top of youtube recommend on my homepage!!!!!! - mico

Must have been nice!

As a Real Estate Developer, I now make a pledge on my honor to conduct my profession in a manner that resolves this massive issue in the American Suburb of which I´ve always seen its potential

I'd keep them out too.

Heaven on Earth.

How come there’s no report about the all Indian and all Arab towns in NJ? People tend to gravitate to there own. That’s nature like it or not.

It just goes to show the law of nature prevails. Kind with kind. If people want to live around their own kind they should be allowed to. Blacks have their black only colleges, they're black only spaces in other colleges. Why is that not considered racist when if the roles were reversed it would be?

I want to live in a majority white area.

I miss the good old days

very interesting, surely you're in favor of diversity in israel too

All across America and around the world now.

What state is this Ladera located in?

Margate City in New Jersey has/Had laws on the books with this exact law, never understood how as a kid Margate was mainly White/Jewish back in the 80’s when I grew up, but it’s not like racism it’s it just where no other ethnicities other than Caucasians.

The stifling conformity and lack of cultural diversity in the suburbs has been a common theme in many rock songs over the years.

Sounds like heaven.

In other words: crime-free suburbs.

GLORY DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everything said but the obvious “REPARATIONS”…removing harmful language is nothing but virtue signaling, the wealth has already been accumulated & concentrated

Yea.

What an amazing time. If you've ever been forced to live around them or go to school with them, you know that this was the way things should have stayed.

This is why reparations will soon happen.

Imagine how clean, safe, and peaceful those neighborhoods were. It must've been nice. I wish we would start bringing them back..

I had no idea. And FDR gave it his blessing? I mean, WTF?

Time to bring it back.

Those were the days...

And I don’t blame them at all. Why would provide mortgages to risky borrowers?

We have a lot to fix

Great video! Thank you 🙏

I bet crime was non-existent in those areas.

this documentary film is an historic approach of how the federal gov. in 40s & 50s developed the suburbs. on these days racism was strong an existed not only here, in most of the latin, african asian countries.... remember the new suburbs in havana, (Cuba) in the 40s & 50s. same thing happened,,,,, we (cubans)n were much more inclusive than many other countries , but what we had were neighborhoods for middle clase, rich people, had and others for not middle ,not rich .and poors (the mayority) Money, and race, (in this order) were in the box to live in nice, well designed , and excelent constructions , most of them in the new suburbs, . something important, some of them were kind of gated communities today.... on the other hand in the rest of the neighborhoods race not was an important issue. money was number one.... and the other was behave...it was so important to be a new resident there. of course there were neighbors for under level poverty, many like every where today. racism to me is "" you are not the same as I " so out of my way""". could be skin color, not same religion, not same etnicity, not same way of live, not same langues everything not like i am ... racism is not discrimination. (think everybody understand this) it comes for our up bringing , education, our posibilities of interchange with different people, from every where in the world... and thesse that not had did is very, very difficult for them clean their mind of this kind of prejudice. so to me is completed logical that here, and everywhere in the world by thesse time those kind of prejudices where in the governmet mind. no only one person, was the mayority of the popuation, those days were not TV, not cable tv, not computers and wiffi and.....that was the way it was.

Based

Who wants to live next to garbage, drugs,gangs ,and violence

🚛🇺🇲 Wasn't that way in Long Beach and San Diego back in the day when I was a kid, Military Towns..

And they all exist in the north/midwest & west coast!! Not the south where black Americans (descendants of USA chattel slavery) own majority of the land

Willig youignoramus do you know why those colleges for African Americans were founded it in the first place was JIM CROW.

do you mean clean, calm, safe, friendly neighborhoods?? Yeah, we know about them.

Wow I do not know much nor paid acknowledgment to so much racism being that I grew up in a pretty diversified environment learning and meeting people from all around the world. All this is new information for me I am simply learning not building up fury for the matters of the past we are all to learn from. thank you for sharing this.

I prefer to live in a neighborhood with guns-a-blazin'.

I want them to show the economic and societal trends of these neighborhoods when they were all white, when they were mixed, and to when they were dominantly occupied by minorities. The difference is not surprising.

It would be great if they could build affordable housing in that community! That would be real equity for black and brown people.

This is an unspoken norm in much of America.