Where Shall We Live?: Report of the Commission on Race and Housing

Where Shall We Live? Report of the Commission on Race and Housing is the landmark publication of an independent citizens’ body that, between 1955 and 1958, undertook the first nationwide, empirically grounded investigation of racial discrimination in the American housing market. Chaired by Earl B. Schwulst with Davis McEntire as Research Director, and supported financially but not substantively by the Fund for the Republic, the Commission brought together social scientists from more than a ...