The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

However, when it became widely known that the most heroic American sailor at Pearl Harbor was Private Dorie Miller, an African American kitchen worker—he had run through flaming oil to carry his ship’s captain to safety and then grabbed a machine

Waco

deeds in Brookline, Massachusetts, forbade resale of property to “any negro or native of Ireland.