> They open by quoting an October 18, 1957 editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which says: "If rooming houses are permitted to spread to the city's one- an

> They open by quoting an October 18, 1957 editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which says: "If rooming houses are permitted to spread to the city's one- and two-family neighborhoods, there is not much use in talking brave words about fighting blight." RE: """blight""" — https://newrepublic.com/article/119106/ferguson-missouris-complicated-history-poverty-and-racial-tension https://newrepublic.com/article/119106/ferguson-missouris-co... "You can’t really understand Ferguson unless you understand J.D. Shelley. He was a middle-class black man from north St. Louis who in 1945 bought a home in a neighborhood just a few minutes east of Ferguson, unaware of the restrictive covenant that barred its sale to 'people of the Negro or Asian Race'. Alas, this move inflamed Louis Kraemer, who lived ten blocks away and was well aware of the covenant. Kraemer was temporarily vindicated when the Missouri Supreme court backed his lawsuit to enforce the covenant, but the United States Supreme Court overturned the Missouri ruling and forbade the state from enforcing such private agreements. In the wake of the Shelley v. Kraemer decision, blacks began to move out of crowded north St. Louis City, where many had been packed into high-rise projects such as the infamous Pruitt-Igoe, to north St. Louis County." Pruitt-Igoe is that housing project they implode in "Koyaanisqatsi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE