Not only does Pietila depict the residential segregation faced by African Americans from whites, he also highlights the discrimination faced by Jews in the housing market. Most of the articles he refers to contain racial bias and advertisements warning whites not to move into certain neighborhoods from a time where The Sun openly supported and advocated for racial segregation. As a former reporter of The Baltimore Sun newspaper, Pietila provides excerpts from previous articles in The Sun, as far back as the late 19th century, regarding housing discrimination. Originally from Finland, Pietila moved to Baltimore, Maryland after visiting the city in the summer of 1964. King’s death in 1968 to the zoning of Blacks leading into the 2000s. Pietila guides the reader through the city’s segregated history, from the residential segregation law passed in 1910 that banned Blacks from living in white neighborhoods to riots following Dr. Written in the early 2000s by Antero Pietila, Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City examines and highlights the history of racial segregation in Baltimore. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City By: Antero Pietila
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