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One resource is the Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America project, a collaborative effort involving the University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, and others. This project focuses on the maps and area descriptions produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s.
The large migration of black workers from the South to the North after globalization and technological advancements replaced the need for a lot of manual labor, created such a large population of black people in the North that people in power initiated redlining. Redlining prevented black people from living in certain areas (both because real ...
Redlining is the practice of denying or increasing the cost of services, such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, [120] access to health care, [121] or even supermarkets [122] to residents in certain, often racially determined, [123] areas. The most devastating form of redlining, and the most common use of the term, refers to Mortgage ...
Exhibits and a community read along will explore Lexington’s history of systemic housing segregation.
2.27 West Virginia. 2.28 Wisconsin. ... It was also a terminal stop on the Underground Railroad. ... Franklin County [17] [27] Fort Mos ...
We know all too well the systemic roadblocks people of color, and particularly Black Americans, face in realizing the dream of homeownership. | Op-ed by T’wina Nobles and Maureen Fife
Kansas City’s J.C. Nichols developed discriminatory housing policies that were copied around the country. | Editorial
Oprah Winfrey visited Forsyth County, Georgia, during a 1987 episode of her television show following the 1987 Forsyth County protests. The protests stemmed from continued racial conflict and reputation as a sundown-town area into the 1960s, following the expulsion of African Americans in the 1920s. [2]