Many white homeowners fled to Long Island, and both communities have developed into stable, mostly black neighborhoods.
One obstacle is that this is a vacation town and many white homeowners live elsewhere.
Defense lawyers denied this and accused the prosecution of trying to keep white, middle-class homeowners off the panel.
These gains, he adds, were felt exclusively by a single group: white homeowners.
Black, white and Hispanic homeowners with comparable credit scores will make loan applications to see if borrowers are treated equally.
White neighbors began to sell, which as was common in the day, caused mass selling by other white homeowners.
Many residential blocks are a mix of black, white and Hispanic homeowners.
The disparity between lending costs for black and white homeowners is a serious matter, given the unhappy history of redlining.
It is a wall of racial separation erected in 1940 as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners.
Some white homeowners have shed any reluctance to express themselves in vehement racial terms.