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“Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially outlawed the racist practice of separate accommodations, relics from the past still linger today,” Rodney Coates writes. “In Ellisville, Miss., for instance, two water fountains remain standing in front of the Jones County Courthouse.”
Most of America’s MLK neighborhoods, from east Montgomery, Alabama, to Harlem in New York City, were born of legal or de facto racial segregation. And in the second half of the 20th century, they experienced the sharpest decline in urban industry, sending local jobs from the cities to suburbs. These historic events first caused, then structurally perpetuated, deprivation in MLK neighborhoods.
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