Selling Segregation in the New South, by Dr. Karen Benjamin

Join the Wake County Historical Society for our Annual Business Meeting and Program on Monday, 11 August 2025 at 7.00 PM, in the classroom at the Mordecai Park Visitors Center, 1101 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh. Dr. Karen Benjamin, Associate Professor of History, Elmhurst University, Elmhurst, IL., examines how white residential developers, planning consultants, and their allies in government strategically replaced block-level segregation with segregation at the neighborhood level in New South cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Houston, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. On-site book sales through Quail Ridge Books (proceeds to WCHS).

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