An enormous insurance company from New York that invested substantially in real estate during the 20th century, most importantly by building a number of segregated housing complexes in New York City (including Parkchester and Stuyvesant Town). In an interesting twist, however, an executive at MetLife also agreed to finance an integrated project in Milpitas, CA, as a personal favor to a Quaker group that was seeking to build housing for black Ford Motor workers.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Term Timeline in The Color of Law
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Chapter 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators
...they propose building housing, and have frequently promoted segregation in the process. For instance, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company built the enormous Parkchester and Stuyvesant Town complexes in New York City, which were originally...
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Chapter 8: Local Tactics
...prevented the AFSC from getting a loan, it managed to get a favor from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company through a “Quaker connection.” With financing secured and help from the UAW, the AFSC next...
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