From the greatest Generation to a generation of degenerates

[Nitram]

37. I'm afraid racism was rife in the North, and segregation was enforced in many communities, country

clubs, universities, and elsewhere. Members of the GG who were not overtly racist turned a blind eye to a system that discriminated against African Americans in every facet of life. Here's an excerpt from one description:

Malignant racism appeared throughout northern political, economic, and social life during the 18th and 19th centuries. But the cancerous history of the Jim Crow North metastasized during the mid-20th century.

Six million black people moved north and west between 1910 and 1970, seeking jobs, desiring education for their children, and fleeing racial terrorism.

The rejuvenation of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century, promoting pseudo-scientific racism known as "eugenics," immigration restriction, and racial segregation found supple support in pockets of the North, from California to Michigan to Queens, New York—not only in the states of the old Confederacy.

The KKK was a visible and overt example of widespread northern racism that remained covert and insidious. Over the course of the 20th century, northern laws, policies, and policing strategies cemented Jim Crow.

In northern housing, the New Deal-era government Home Owners Loan Corporation maintained and created racially segregated neighborhoods. The research of scholars Robert K. Nelson, LaDale Winling, Richard Marciano, and Nathan Connolly, through their valuable website, Mapping Inequality, makes this history visible and undeniable.

Zoning policies in the North preserved racial segregation in schools. Discrimination in jobs contributed to economic underdevelopment of businesses and neighborhoods, as well as destabilization of families. Crime statistics became a modern weapon for justifying the criminalization of northern urban black populations and aggressive forms of policing.

A close examination of the history of the Jim Crow North—what Rosa Parks referred to as the "northern promised land that wasn't"—demonstrates how racial discrimination and segregation operated as a system.

Judges, police officers, school board officials, and many others created and maintained the scaffolding for a northern Jim Crow system that hid in plain sight.

New Deal policies, combined with white Americans' growing apprehension toward the migrants moving from the South to the North, created a systematized raw deal for the country's black people.

Segregation worsened after the New Deal of the 1930s in multiple ways. For example, Federal Housing Administration policies rated neighborhoods for residential and school racial homogeneity. Aid to Dependent Children carved a requirement for "suitable homes" in discriminatory ways. Policymakers and intellectuals blamed black "cultural pathology" for social disparities.

As Martin Luther King Jr. pointedly observed in 1965, "As the nation, negro and white, trembled with outrage at police brutality in the South, police misconduct in the North was rationalized, tolerated and usually denied..."

...Many northerners, even ones who pushed for change in the South, were silent and often resistant to change at home. One of the grandest achievements of the modern civil rights movement—the 1964 Civil Rights Act—contained a key loophole to prevent school desegregation from coming to northern communities.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-racist-history-of-the-north