Racial Discrimination in Transportation

Class 01: Introduction to Transportation Law

1. Syllabus (posted on Blackboard)
2. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) [1]

Class 02: Interstate Travel

1. Nomination of J. Monroe Johnson to be an Interstate Commerce Commissioner (1949) (through printed page 9) [2]
2. Keys v. Carolina Coach Co., Interstate Commerce Commission, No. MC-C-1564, 64 M.C.C. 769 (1955) [3]
3. NAACP v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co., Interstate Commerce Commission, No. 297 I.C.C. 335 (1955) [4]
4. T. Anthony Bell, The quietly defiant, unlikely fighter: Pfc. Sarah Keys and the fight for justice and humanity (2014) [5]
5. Katie McCabe, Making History in a Segregated Washington: Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Her 45-year Fight for Justice (2011) (printed pages 67 - 97) [6]
6. The Freedom Riders Reunite 50 Years Later, The Oprah Winfrey Show (2011) (41 minutes) [7]
   1. Note: The PBS documentary referenced in this video is The Freedom Riders, PBS American Experience (2011) [8]
7. Regulations Governing Discrimination in Operations of Interstate Motor Common Carriers of Passengers, Interstate Commerce Commission, 26 Federal Register 9166 (September 29, 1961) (PDF page 14) [9]
8. United States v. City of Jackson, 318 F.2d 1 (5th Cir. 1963) [10]
9. The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, Smithsonian Channel (2020) (51 minutes) [11]
   1. Note: You can also view actual green books [12], explore local sites [13], and learn about the search for one of these sites [14]
10. Civil Rights Timeline, Library of Congress (current through 2014) [15]
11. Supreme Court cases
    1. Students with last names A - C: Mitchell v. United States, 313 U.S. 80 (1941) [16]
    2. Students with last names D - L: Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946) [17]
    3. Students with last names M - Re: Henderson v. United States, 339 US. 816 (1950) [18]
    4. Students with last names Rh - Z: Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960) [19]

Class 03: Land Use, Housing, Education, and Employment

How Transportation Relates to Land Use, Housing, Education, and Employment

1. Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974), Introduction (1-21)
2. Jonathan English, Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.), CityLaw (2018) [20]
3. Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres, Dismantling Transportation Apartheid in the United States Before and After Disasters Strike, ABA Human Rights Magazine (2007) [21]
4. U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, Zoned Out: How School and Residential Zoning Limit Education Opportunity (2019) (appendices are optional) [22]
5. Dustin A. Cable, Racial Dot Map [23]

How Governments Destroyed Communities and Displaced Black People

1. "The Color of Law" Details How U.S. Housing Policies Created Segregation, NPR (2017) [24]
   1. The full book is available through our library [25]
2. Mapping Inequality, Redlining in Columbia [26]
   1. This website also includes redlined maps of many other communities
3. Deed for lot in Wales Garden in Columbia, SC [27]
4. Real estate listings for Columbia, SC [28]
5. Joseph A. De Laine, Sr., Things that Happened since Nov. 11, 1949 [29]
6. Staci Leanne Richey, Variations on a Theme: Planning for the Elimination of Black Neighborhoods in Downtown Columbia, South Carolina, 1905-1970 (2004 thesis) (endnotes are optional) [30]
7. Edens v. City of Columbia, 228 S.C. 563 (1956) [31]
8. StuyTown, History of StuyTown [32]
9. Dorsey v. Stuyvesant Town Corp., 299 N.Y. 512 (N.Y. 1949) [33]
10. Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974), Rumors and the Report of Rumors (961-83)

Introduction to The Fair Housing Act

1. The Fair Housing Act: Discrimination in Housing Based Upon Race or Color, U.S. Department of Justice [34]
2. Josh Gerstein, FBI releases files on Trump apartments' race discrimination probe in '70s, Politico (2017) (with optional links to source documents) [35]
3. Comment of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Regarding Proposed Rule for HUD's Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Disparate Impact Standard (2019), [36]

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Katherine Allen at Historic Columbia (https://www.historiccolumbia.org) for her expertise, research, and materials