Since the ’80s the US has experienced not only a steady increase in income inequality, but also a contemporaneous increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census data, we document a ...

WOMEN PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN 1961. PHYLLIS HYATT FOUGHT FOR AN END TO SEGREGATED LUNCH COUNTERS IN HER CITY OF ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA, ALONGSIDE HER MALE FRIENDS.

North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where ...