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In the 1970s, white residents of the Rosedale neighborhood in Queens were fighting integration. On November 5, 1975 the Federal Government took direct civil rights action, specifically barring Rosedale residents from “threatening, intimidating, or otherwise interfering” with African Americans seeking homes in the neighborhood. It was the first time such an action was taken under the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
This video reveals an important and largely forgotten story of housing discrimination, placing Queens at the center of the history of racism and civil rights in America. This is not the well-worn story of Jim Crow segregation in Alabama or activism in Harlem. The video weaves together scenes from Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun performed by LaGuardia Community College students, oral histories conducted by LaGuardia Community College students with senior citizens who lived in Rosedale during integration, and footage from a Bill Moyers’ Journal (1976) on Rosedale, to reveal an equally ugly and violent story of discrimination in the North, rooted in housing, property value, and economic security.