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2 0 1 6 P R O G R A M S / E V E N T S

FREE

FridayMAR 42pm to

9pm

SaturdayMAR 510:30m to 5pm

Lee Auditorium

In this two-day symposium, local and national speakers address issues related to housing segregation and its lasting impact on the region. See the reverse of this sheet for a listing of speakers. Books by the speakers are available for purchase in the Museum Shop.

A CITY DIVIDEDHousing Polarization in St. Louis

Image: Pruitt-Igoe after completion, February 8, 1955.Photo by Ted McCrea.Missouri Historical Society.

A City Divided: Housing Polarization in St. Louis has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is conducted in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Friday, March 42pm | The Great Divide: Housing Segregation in Greater St. Louis, 1916-2016 by Colin GordonColin Gordon is Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of Iowa. He is the author of New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920-1935 (1994); Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003); Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008); and Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality (2013). His work on the history of race and housing in Greater

St. Louis also includes two web-based mapping projects (worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/mappingdecline and http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/), a series of articles on Ferguson in Dissent, and over 30 invited presentations.

3:30pm | Segregated Money: African American Bankers and Credit in Early Twentieth-Century St. Louis by Margaret GarbMargaret Garb is the author of Freedom’s Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration and City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Magazine and In These Times. She is a professor of American history and

co-director of the Prison Education Project at Washington University.

7pm | The Pruitt Igoe Myth screening and discussion with filmmaker Paul Fehler and journalist Sylvester BrownIt began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.

Paul Fehler is a documentary filmmaker from St. Louis, Missouri. He is, by trade, a sign maker, and his academic training is as a geographer. He has co-produced, along with Chad Freidrichs, the films Jandek on Corwood, First Impersonator, and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. He makes his home in the city of St. Louis.

Sylvester Brown, Jr. is a former award-winning columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Prior to that, Brown published Take Five magazine for 15 years. After leaving the Post-Dispatch in 2009, Sylvester worked as a consultant and researcher for SmileyBooks, owned by public radio and TV commentator Tavis Smiley, on several books, including Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell, Too Important to Fail by Smiley, and The Rich & the Rest of Us by Smiley and Dr. Cornel West.

Saturday, March 510:30am | Segregation: De Facto or De Jure? by Richard RothsteinRichard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute. His recent work has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation, as in his report, “The Making of Ferguson.” He is the author of many books and articles about education and race, all of which can be found on his website, http://www.epi.org/people/richard-rothstein/. He welcomes correspondence and inquiries about his research, and you can contact him at riroth@epi.org.

1pm | Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms by Carol M. Rose and Richard BrooksCarol M. Rose is the Ashby Lohse Professor of Natural Resource Law, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law; Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization; and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1989. Professor Rose teaches property, land use, environmental law, natural resources law, and intellectual property law. She received her B.A. from Antioch in 1962, her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1963, her Ph.D. in History from Cornell in 1969, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977.

Richard Brooks is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University and a Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School. His expertise is in contracts, organizations, culture, and law and economics. Professor Brooks has a B.A. from Cornell, an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago.

2:30pm | All Around the City, Same Song: White Currency, Black Stigmatization, and the Persistence of Housing Segregation and School Inequality by Jerome E. Morris, Ph.D.Dr. Jerome E. Morris is the E. Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education (in conjunction with St. Louis Public Schools) and a Research Fellow with the Center for Public Policy Research at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His research studies in urban and suburban centers provide empirically grounded models for understanding race and education in post-Brown America. He is the author of Troubling the Waters: Fulfilling the Promise of Quality Public Schooling for Black Children (2009, Teachers College Press).

4pm | The Aftermath of Ferguson by Yemi Akande-BartschDr. Yemi Akande-Bartsch is President and CEO, FOCUS St. Louis. She is recognized as an expert in the areas of civic and leadership development, diversity and inclusion. She has close to 20 years of experience in designing and facilitating civic and leadership training, diversity and inclusion, and coaching programs. Dr. Akande-Bartsch holds a doctorate in communication, two master’s degrees (human relations/organizational development and journalism and mass communication) from University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma), and a bachelor’s degree in speech communication

from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.