The reading was talking about how there was a lot of segregation in the 1920's even when it came to different ethnicity's buying houses. Whites had their own separate neighborhoods different from the blacks. The blacks were not shown houses by real estate agents houses that were in a white neighborhood and banks even turned down blacks for mortgages. One black physician named Dr.Ossian Sweet bought a house in Detroit in a all white neighborhood. When he and his family moved into the white neighborhood he had to bring along nine friends and family members along with a shotgun, two rifles, six pistols, and four hundred rounds of ammunition. He also had a few police officers stand out for the safety of him and his family. Hundreds of white men came shouting to the Sweet house screaming that they will send the "niggers" back to where they came from. Rocks were being thrown at the house and suddenly gunfire came from the house shooting two white men and killing one.The eleven blacks were taken to jail and then had to go through a trial in which sweet was asked by the judge on why he wanted to live in a white neighborhood. he simply said" because i bought the house, and it was my house, and i felt i had the right to live in it." The verdict came out in the favor of Dr.Ossian Sweet and he was allowed to live in his house in the white neighborhood. Over the several decades segregation was slowly disappearing and Blacks were allowed to buy houses in the suburbs.
1) what was the most segregated city in the united states and why?
2) Why was home ownership so popular in the 1920's?
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