Employment and Housing Discrimination has been around since the late 1800's, when segregation kept the whites from the blacks, even after the African American Community was granted "freedom and equality"
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Employment and Housing Discrimination didn't just start with the African American community, it affected the Native American, Hispanic, and Asian population in the U.S.
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In a personal interview conducted with a Bay Area native, Jay Abarca, she was able to give further insight on housing discrimination from a primary source perspective. She said growing up in Oakley, she never encountered African Americans until she started attending college in Concord in the late 1970's. Around that time, she read an article on housing discrimination in the East Bay, specifically in the cities of Oakley, Brentwood, Byron, Treasure Island, and Antioch, uncovering the truth about an "unwritten rule that African Americans could not live in [the given cities] communities." The article she read went on to explain that post-World War II left an impact on the African American community in the south that prompted them to move to cities like Oakland, Hayward or Fremont in the 1940's. This left a continuous and on-going trend for the African American community even up to 1970's, where Jay had never encountered African Americans up until her college years. This is because communities in the East Bay attempted to maintain a "good reputation," by keeping African Americans out of their residencies. Further information is given in an East Bay news casting article
("Census: East Bay more diverse, and black residents less isolated, but segregation by neighborhood persists")
("Census: East Bay more diverse, and black residents less isolated, but segregation by neighborhood persists")