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In this book, urban planning and land use expert Rebecca Retzlaff explores race-based urban planning and housing policies in Montgomery, Alabama that disadvantaged non-white citizens of Alabama's capital city in the twentieth century.

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""Retzlaff does an excellent job of employing archival evidence at the federal, state, and local level. Overall, this is a thorough historical study of how Alabama's capital city employed racial discrimination in the twentieth-century planning of that city."" --Charles E. Connerly, author of ""The Most Segregated City in America"" City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 ""Planning White Supremacy is founded on research in documents previously untouched by scholars, and it explores questions that have long needed scholarly attention."" --J. Mills Thornton, author of Archipelagoes of My South: Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830-1965

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Rebecca Coleen Retzlaff is professor of political science and director of the Academic Sustainability Program at Auburn University. She is coeditor of Justice and the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways and coauthor of Ohio Planning and Zoning Law and Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing.

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