Waiting for Gautreaux A Story of Segregation Housing and the Black Ghetto 1st Edition by Alexander Polikoff ISBN 0810124203 9780810124202

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ISBN 10: 0810124203

ISBN 13: 9780810124202 

Author: Alexander Polikoff 

Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award

On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. All the new public housing, it seemed, was going into black neighborhoods. If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn’t it also prohibited in public housing?

And so began Gautreaux v. CHA and HUD, a case that from its rocky beginnings would roll on year after year, decade after decade, carrying Polikoff and his colleagues to the nation’s Supreme Court (to face then-solicitor general Robert Bork); establishing precedents for suits against the discriminatory policies of local housing authorities, often abetted by HUD; and setting the stage for a nationwide experiment aimed at ending the concentration–and racialization–of poverty through public housing. Sometimes Kafkaesque, sometimes simply inspiring, and never less than absorbing, the story of Gautreaux, told by its principal lawyer, moves with ease through local and national civil rights history, legal details, political matters, and the personal costs–and rewards–of a commitment to fairness, equality, and justice. Both the memoir of a dedicated lawyer, and the narrative of a tenacious pursuit of equality, this story–itself a critical, still-unfolding chapter in recent American history–urges us to take an essential step in ending the racial inequality that Alexis de Toqueville prophetically named America’s “most formidable evil.”

Table of contents:

Part One 
Chapter OneUp with a Ladle 
Chapter TwoEcstasy and Sobriety 
Chapter ThreeThrough the Jungle
Part Two 
Chapter FourMorasses, Quagmires, and Bogs 
Chapter FiveFrom Cabrini-Green to Willow Creek 
Chapter SixStarting Over
Part Three
Chapter Seven”The Most Formidable Evil”

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