Glenn Loury

If you were to look at the way that housing market operated or at the allocation of public educational resources, you would see significant discriminatory barriers that impeded African-American development of their skills and participation in the society. And all of that has changed. So that's, I think, for the good without any question.

If you were to look at the way that housing market operated or at the allocation of public educational resources, you would see significant discriminatory barriers that impeded African-American development of their skills and participation in the society. And all of that has changed. So that's, I think, for the good without any question.

That having changed, let's call it the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the change in the ethos of the country with the rise of the civil rights movement and so on, that having changed, the question becomes, we get to 1970, let's say, and the question becomes, what next? And there, I think the story is less clear. And I think that there are developments that are very distressing.

That having changed, let's call it the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the change in the ethos of the country with the rise of the civil rights movement and so on, that having changed, the question becomes, we get to 1970, let's say, and the question becomes, what next? And there, I think the story is less clear. And I think that there are developments that are very distressing.

That having changed, let's call it the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the change in the ethos of the country with the rise of the civil rights movement and so on, that having changed, the question becomes, we get to 1970, let's say, and the question becomes, what next? And there, I think the story is less clear. And I think that there are developments that are very distressing.

I think when you, there's a wonderful book that I want to plug here called The World of Patience Gromes, G-R-O-M-E-S Gromes. by a man called Scott Davis. Patience Grohms is a woman born in the late 19th century, like 1890 or something like that, to a yeoman farmer, a Black person who owned his own land, her father. And she's a princess. She takes piano lessons. She dresses up for church on Sunday.

I think when you, there's a wonderful book that I want to plug here called The World of Patience Gromes, G-R-O-M-E-S Gromes. by a man called Scott Davis. Patience Grohms is a woman born in the late 19th century, like 1890 or something like that, to a yeoman farmer, a Black person who owned his own land, her father. And she's a princess. She takes piano lessons. She dresses up for church on Sunday.

I think when you, there's a wonderful book that I want to plug here called The World of Patience Gromes, G-R-O-M-E-S Gromes. by a man called Scott Davis. Patience Grohms is a woman born in the late 19th century, like 1890 or something like that, to a yeoman farmer, a Black person who owned his own land, her father. And she's a princess. She takes piano lessons. She dresses up for church on Sunday.

They have a very strict behavioral code. They're devout Christians. They are Booker T. Washington-esque in their orientation. And she marries and migrates to Richmond, Virginia and starts a family in the 1920s. And Scott Davis, the author of this great book, traces her family life through the early 1960s. And what you see for Patience Groms is her kids struggle.

They have a very strict behavioral code. They're devout Christians. They are Booker T. Washington-esque in their orientation. And she marries and migrates to Richmond, Virginia and starts a family in the 1920s. And Scott Davis, the author of this great book, traces her family life through the early 1960s. And what you see for Patience Groms is her kids struggle.

They have a very strict behavioral code. They're devout Christians. They are Booker T. Washington-esque in their orientation. And she marries and migrates to Richmond, Virginia and starts a family in the 1920s. And Scott Davis, the author of this great book, traces her family life through the early 1960s. And what you see for Patience Groms is her kids struggle.

The neighborhood, which is not wealthy, but stable. Her husband works for the railroad. He's got a very good job. Neighborhoods declines. Model cities and various kinds of federal programs come through that end up remaking the community in ways that actually work in an adverse effect.

The neighborhood, which is not wealthy, but stable. Her husband works for the railroad. He's got a very good job. Neighborhoods declines. Model cities and various kinds of federal programs come through that end up remaking the community in ways that actually work in an adverse effect.

The neighborhood, which is not wealthy, but stable. Her husband works for the railroad. He's got a very good job. Neighborhoods declines. Model cities and various kinds of federal programs come through that end up remaking the community in ways that actually work in an adverse effect.

Public housing, which is initiated with the idea that the poor were going to be sheltered, ends up creating ghetto-type phenomenon.

Public housing, which is initiated with the idea that the poor were going to be sheltered, ends up creating ghetto-type phenomenon.

Public housing, which is initiated with the idea that the poor were going to be sheltered, ends up creating ghetto-type phenomenon.

The kids who used to be interested in earning the respect of their peers by keeping their nose clean, keeping their nose to the grindstone, not having kids before they were married and stuff like that, end up embracing a much looser and less helpful set of cultural practices. And by the time you get to the 1970s, it's a mess. So, there's a lot of mess.

The kids who used to be interested in earning the respect of their peers by keeping their nose clean, keeping their nose to the grindstone, not having kids before they were married and stuff like that, end up embracing a much looser and less helpful set of cultural practices. And by the time you get to the 1970s, it's a mess. So, there's a lot of mess.

The kids who used to be interested in earning the respect of their peers by keeping their nose clean, keeping their nose to the grindstone, not having kids before they were married and stuff like that, end up embracing a much looser and less helpful set of cultural practices. And by the time you get to the 1970s, it's a mess. So, there's a lot of mess.