Summary: This week at In The Past Lane, the American history podcast, we look at the history behind the unending problem of racial segregation in US society. I’ll speak with scholar Richard Rothstein about his book, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Racial segregation, he argues, was not caused by poverty or because some prefer to live with people of their own race. Rather, it was driven by federal laws and policies that promoted segregation and perpetuate black povert
