Event Date and Time: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 7pm

Event Location: Jones Middle School, 2100 Arlington Avenue,Upper Arlington

Event Tickets:$15 General Admission$50 Event Admission + Pre-ception with Mr. Rothstein at 5:30pm, including reserved event seating and a signed copy of thebook (limited quantity).

Purchase at Rothstein-March4.eventbrite.com (Gen Admission)and RothsteinPre-ception-March4.eventbrite.com (VIP)

An Evening with Richard Rothstein, author ofThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Presented by the Upper Arlington Historical Society as part of theirHistorySpeaks 2020 series, with sincere thanks tothe series' lead sponsor, First Merchants Bank.

Join leading authority on housing policy, Richard Rothstein, for an onstage discussion of thepowerful themes from The Color of Law, followed by a Q&A session and book signing.

Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the U.S. andbears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems.We are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is theresult of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violateconstitutional rights.The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregationwas created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policyin the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-onlysuburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited fromparticipating.

Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the nationalconversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.

About the Author: Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic PolicyInstitute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal DefenseFund. A former columnist for the New York Times, Rothstein lives in California, where is aFellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).Purchasing the Book: The Upper Arlington Historical Society is thankful to be inpartnership with Gramercy Books in Bexley for book sales (pre- and post-event) and booksigning (post-event). When choosing where to order your copy of The Color of Law prior toMarch 4th, please shop local and choose Gramercy Books!

This activity is not sponsored by Upper Arlington Schools.