‘An Equal Opportunity Lie’: How Housing Discrimination Led to the Flint Water Crisis

This story was written by Anna Clark, author of The Poisoned City. It was drawn by me, Josh Kramer, and was originally published by the now defunct Splinter on 12/5/17.

NOTE ON SOURCES:

Everything in attributed to a historic person comes from direct oral histories or quoted remarks in books and news articles. Images drawn from historic photos. Narration by Anna Clark. The following sources were essential: Bronze Pillars: Oral History of African-Americans in Flint by Rhonda S. Sanders; Telling Our Stories: Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in Flint, edited by Ananthakrishnan Ayer; Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis by Andrew R. Highsmith; and contemporaneous news accounts by The Flint Journal, The Detroit Free Press, The New York Times, and Jet Magazine.