Return to the Land, a Whites-Only Community, Is Sued for Discrimination
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Michelle Walker, a real estate broker from St. Louis, discovered a real estate opportunity in the Ozark Mountains offering land at about $1,000 an acre, significantly below market value.
- The land was part of a development called Return to the Land, which restricts membership to white, heterosexual applicants as it is run by white nationalists.
- Return to the Land gained widespread media attention after its founders revealed plans to create a network of whites-only compounds across the U.S., currently focusing on a pilot community in Ravenden, Arkansas.
- The community explicitly bans Jews, Black people, homosexuals, and anyone without white European heritage from joining.