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Missouri man recalls moving into Ferguson

In the days that followed, Larman Williams, then 34, could not get the real estate agent listed on the sign to return his inquiries. The couple was trying to buy a home in a nearly all-white town. Despite laws forbidding the practice, Ferguson, along with most of north St. Louis County, had neighborhoods with restrictive real estate policies — sometimes written, sometimes just whispered — forbidding the sale of homes to blacks. In this suburban tableau of white post-war prosperity, there was no deference to the fact that Williams had a college degree and was working on a graduate degree in education. Or that he was named Larman in honor of a white German manager who had given his father a job at the Universal Match Corporation plant during the Depression. Williams was up against decades of segregated housing and zoning policies and real estate and lending practices in St.

 

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