Evidence 1: “Today, John Smith of Gloucester can leave his family in the morning and travel safely and quickly over a modern express highway to his job. Because new roads, like magic arteries, pump increased values into adjacent land, he now travels past property whose value has increased 100 times over.”—Document 25.1: Metropolitan Highway Construction: Boston Transcript

Evidence 2: “These young adults begin to discover Redbook about the time they apply for their marriage license, start life in their own homes, have their first baby, take out their first loan, and they stay with Redbook through their busiest years. As Redbook sees them, they are an energetic lot, a carefree lot, even though so suddenly plunged into family life. As the babies start coming, they usually decide to concentrate on their houses, with the woman staying home to learn new ways to run a household.”—Document 25.2: In the Suburbs Transcript

Evidence 3: “At first glance, regardless of variations in trim, color, and position of the houses, they seem monotonous; nothing rises above two stories, there are no full-grown trees, and the horizon is an endless picket fence of telephone poles and television aerials. (The mass builder seeks flat land because it cuts his construction costs.)”—Document 25.3: Harry Henderson, The Mass-Produced Suburbs

Evidence 4: “We know that for many charity begins at home. So do hate, hostility, and delinquency, especially when the home environment is a slum, lacking adequate space, lacking facilities, but not lacking for high rentals, while infested with insects and rodents.”—Document 25.5: Jackie Robinson, Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Evidence 1: “Along this highway have sprouted seven great industrial centers, occupied by some of the country’s leading manufacturers, and other centers are now being developed. New wealth and new revenues have come to the old New England towns along the highway.”—Document 25.1: Metropolitan Highway Construction: Boston Transcript

Evidence 2: “For the women [family life in the suburbs] is a long, monotonous daily proposition. Generally the men, once home, do not want to leave. They want to ‘relax’ or ‘improve the property’—putter around the lawn or shrubbery. However, the women want a ‘change.’ Thus, groups of women often go to the movies together.”—Document 25.3: Harry Henderson, The Mass-Produced Suburbs

Evidence 3: “Little boxes on the hillside/Little boxes made of ticky tacky/Little boxes on the hillside/Little boxes all the same/There’s a green one and a pink one/And a blue one and a yellow one/And they’re all made out of ticky tacky/And they all look just the same.”—Document 25.4: Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes”

Evidence 4: “When my wife and I decided to move from St. Albans, Long Island [ca. 1956], we were put through the usual bag of tricks right in this State. At first we were told the house we were interested in had been sold just before we inquired, or we would be invited to make an offer, a sort of a sealed bid, and then we’d be told that offers higher than ours had been turned down.”—Document 25.5: Jackie Robinson, Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Evidence 1: “Along this highway have sprouted seven great industrial centers, occupied by some of the country’s leading manufacturers, and other centers are now being developed. New wealth and new revenues have come to the old New England towns along the highway. . . . And not to forget our Mr. Smith, and thousands more like him, here he is arriving at his place of work without once having had to fight the Boston traffic.”—Document 25.1: Metropolitan Highway Construction: Boston Transcript

Evidence 2: “Police attribute this lack of crime to the fact that nearly all the men were honorably discharged from the armed services and subjected to a credit screening. This, they say, ‘eliminated the criminal element and riff-raff.’ Some police officials included the absence of slums and disreputable hang-outs as causes. Personally, I felt many more factors were involved, including the absence of real poverty; the strong ties of family, religious, and organizational activities; [and] steady employment.”—Document 25.3: Harry Henderson, The Mass-Produced Suburbs

Evidence 3: “And the people in the houses/All went to the university,/Where they were put in boxes/And they came out all the same,/And there’s doctors and lawyers,/And business executives,/And they’re all made out of ticky tacky/And they all look just the same.”—Document 25.4: Malvina Reynolds, “Little Boxes”

Evidence 4: “When my wife and I decided to move from St. Albans, Long Island [ca. 1956], we were put through the usual bag of tricks right in this State. At first we were told the house we were interested in had been sold just before we inquired, or we would be invited to make an offer, a sort of a sealed bid, and then we’d be told that offers higher than ours had been turned down. Then we tried buying houses on the spot for whatever price was asked. They handled this by telling us the house had been taken off the market. Once we met a broker who told us he would like to help us find a home, but his clients were against selling to Negroes. Whether or not we got a story with the refusal, the results were always the same.”—Document 25.5: Jackie Robinson, Testimony before the United States Commission on Civil Rights