Clark Family
Barred from moving into an all-white Chicago suburb in 1951, the Clarks faced a violent mob attack that exposed the fierce resistance to housing integration in the North.
Barred from moving into an all-white Chicago suburb in 1951, the Clarks faced a violent mob attack that exposed the fierce resistance to housing integration in the North.
The Shelley family’s fight to keep their St. Louis home led to a landmark Supreme Court case that challenged the legality of enforcing racial housing covenants.
Sing Sheng’s attempt to buy a home in South San Francisco ended with a community vote rejecting his family, spotlighting anti-Asian housing discrimination in postwar America.
When the Myers family integrated Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1957, they endured months of harassment and violence, challenging one of America’s most iconic segregated suburbs.