A huge, publicly-funded suburb built by David Bohannon’s company in Richmond, California. Rollingwood was explicitly segregated by government policy: it was reserved for white people, both by FHA and VA loan requirements and by restrictive covenants in housing deeds. This contrasts with the substandard, crowded housing African Americans received in industrial areas during the same period.
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Rollingwood Term Timeline in The Color of Law
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Chapter 1: If San Francisco, Then Everywhere?
...loans to improve their houses—the government took out huge loans to built a suburb called Rollingwood, where African American people were prohibited from living and every house had an extra bedroom...
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Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement
...that prospective suburban developers write this into deeds before insuring their mortgages. This happened in Rollingwood, Levittown, and numerous other suburbs Rothstein has mentioned so far in his book, and the...
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Chapter 8: Local Tactics
...A major developer of these neighborhoods was a man named David Bohannon, who also built Rollingwood in Richmond. One of the neighborhoods where Stevenson was barred from moving was the enormous...
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Chapter 9: State-Sanctioned Violence
...veteran Wilbur Gary wanted to buy a house in 1952. A white friend was leaving Rollingwood, and in the 1948 Shelley v. Kraemer case, the Supreme Court had already decided that...
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