While reading this week's article, "Freedom Now" by Joshua Freeman, the extremity of racial segregation and discrimination of the 1900s became very apparent. While the reading addressed various factors of discrimination towards minorities such as African Americans and Puerto Ricans, one particular aspect I noticed were the differences between African American objectives regarding civil and social justice, versus those of the Puerto Ricans. The article states that African Americans were more concerned with fighting for social justice, and issues related to abolishing segregation in the school systems, while the Puerto Ricans were more sensitive to discrimination in the workplace and workforce. 

Also, African Americans seem much more linked to discrimination in the housing department, rather than Puerto Ricans. I think that this may be because some Puerto Ricans have an easier time getting into housing districts and neighborhoods, rather than African Americans. "Freedom Now" touches on this point somewhat, but what I thought of while reading that part was an article that we previously read "The Beginning of Public Housing in New York" by Peter Marcuse. This article also touches on discrimination within the housing districts, and it states that many predominantly white neighborhoods refused to have African American public housing units, and so African Americans could only obtain public housing in neighborhoods that were already established as "black neighborhoods". In "Freedom Now", the same is true regarding real estate. African Americans and other minorities, who may be able to afford the market price, still were not entirely able to reside in a affluent white neighborhood, because the community feared that once African Americans began to reside there, real estate values would plummet and the quality of life would also deteriorate.

Regarding the picture, I chose this image because it kind of relates to African Americans and other minorities during the 1950s and 19610s when it came to real estate. For many of them, pieces of real property that they wished to own and possibly could afford, may as well have already have a "SOLD" stamped onto the "For sale" sign, because they stood barely any chance of actually purchasing the property for themselves. In the article, it also mentioned an African American family, the Whitmans, whose prime hope was to get into public housing. However, even that may prove to be an obstacle, as Peter Marcuse pointed out in "The Beginning of Public Housing in New York".

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