As tackled in the eighth chapter of The Color of Law, the lack of successfulness the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) experienced stood out to me. During the mid-twentieth century, there were no prevailing areas in Milpitas, California, that willingly sold or rented to African-Americans. However, this all started to change after Ben Gross, the chair of the Ford plant’s union housing committee, initiated the process of discovering a housing development who agreed on the integration of African-Americans and whites. Nevertheless, despite the several new subdivisions of unsold units, the AFSC ineffectively persuaded developers to interchange with African-Americans. My reasoning towards this matter revolts around the number of open houses
