http://miroundtable.wordpress.com/20...06/mock-trial/

According to Tom Costello's blog, the Michigan Roundtable is organizing a mock trial of the Federal Housing Administration for its discriminatory policies from the 1930s to 1970s. Students of housing in Detroit [[e.g. those who read Thomas Sugrue's "Origins of the Urban Crisis") will recognize the FHA's role in propagating the disintegration / segregation of Detroit during the middle part of the 20th century.

The mock trial is a dramatic idea that could generate popular attention toward a part of our history that the person on the street likely does not know or understand.