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Across
  1. 3. Another discriminatory real estate practice, in which developers wrote racially restrictive contracts to prohibit minorities from living in the specific home.
  2. 5. The 1968 Act passed by President Lyndon B Johnson.
  3. 7. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ construction was a mechanism to disturb and displace minority residents and degrade segregated communities.
  4. 10. Housing discrimination at this level was enabled by the institutionalization of discriminatory practices at the federal level.
  5. 11. The name of one of the first racially exclusive suburban developments. Located in New York.
  6. 14. The discriminatory maps created by the HOLC to divide races/ classes from one another.
  7. 16. Yet another economic mechanism that created deeply entrenched residential segregation. It occurs when banks and financial institutions withhold loans or opportunities from residents in segregated areas.
  8. 18. The government entity that provided long-term, self-amortizing mortgages to certain Americans.
  9. 19. Before 1900, American cities were not _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Down
  1. 1. This concept was used by federal and local governments alike as a justification for tearing down blighted and predominantly minority communities.
  2. 2. Discrimination persisted at the local level because it was _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ at the federal level by institutions like the HOLC and FHA.
  3. 4. In both the South and the North, the social lives of white people and Black people _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ prior to 1900.
  4. 6. As segregation became more and more deeply entrenched in American cities, it led to deeper levels of this.
  5. 8. Before 1900, there was a _ _ _ _ _ (sized) Black population in the North.
  6. 9. The discriminatory practice utilized by real estate agents in which they rented or sold homes to Black people, then warned white neighborhoods, inciting a cycle of white flight and property value depreciation.
  7. 12. The action of white people fleeing cities to move to the suburbs.
  8. 13. Oftentimes, this was a mechanism to force Black people into ghettos. It encompasses the actions of harassment, threats, bombings, and angry mobs organizing.
  9. 14. Occurred from the 1960's-1980's in big cities, hardened the color line in employment, education, and housing.
  10. 15. According to "American Apartheid," ethnic enclaves differ from _ _ _ _ _ _ because enclaves had a variety of nationalities and were transitory homes, while _ _ _ _ _ _ are more permanent, racially homogeneous areas.
  11. 17. In the post WWII period, many white Americans fled cities to the _ _ _ _ _ _ _.