New Bio of Jessica Mitford Recalls Fine Old Conflict Over Civil Rights 

Jessica Mitford appearing on the British talk show After Dark on 20 August 1988.

During World War II, the shipyard workforce in Richmond, CA. numbered one hundred thousand—and 20 percent was non-white.  By 1945, Richmond had the largest public housing program in the nation, with seventy-three thousand residents. Eighty percent of Richmond’s black residents lived in these hastily constructed units but in racially segregated fashion.

As a “thank you” for their service building ships to defeat fascism in Germany and Japan...