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Map to the right shows Redlining, Philadelphia 1937
Topics on the Page
Redlining Explained
Redlining and the Federal Government
The Wrong Side of the Tracks
Redlining in Cities
Syracuse, New York
Macon, Georgia
Chicago
Philadephia
Boston
Current Laws and Practices
How Tornadoes Impact Segregation
Redlining Explained
Redlining refers to the discriminatory practice of withholding home loan or home insurance funds from buyers in certain areas of a city (outlined on maps in red).
Mortgage lenders redlined areas (predominantly low-income African American neighborhoods) where they did not want to make loans.
This practice served to prevent African Americans from home ownership.
PAGE SUMMARY: The page explains redlining as the way that racial segregation was enacted by refusing to provide Black Americans with home insurance or mortgages, effectively preventing most Black families from owning homes. This was a legal process that allowed white Americans to benefit off of the exploitation of Black Americans and led to the formation of “suburbs”. It also details how natural disasters exacerbate the effects of redlining, and how things such as healthcare are affected by the process of redlining. Redlining forces African Americans into the “least desirable” areas of the city which then become overpoliced as a result. The page displays maps demonstrating how redlining is accomplished throughout cities and what it does to communities through segregation.
(Carolyn Byrne, May 2022; Hannah Whalen, April 2023).
Interactive Redlining Activity by City at Not Even Past
This website has an interactive feature that allows students to compare current social vulnerability maps with information on many cities throughout the country.
It provides details on each district within the cities represented including census data along with brief descriptions of the area. The color coded maps allow students to analyze change over time and view the impact that redlining has had on their own communities
This video shows a protest against busing to desegregate Boston schools
Protestors were very much aware of the segregation within the city and were actively fighting to preserve segregation
This video demonstrates the need for the city of Boston to remain under the same pressure as other cities in the US to do better in creating an equitable city
In 2022, the authors of a 5 decade study on Tornadoes, Poverty and Race found that tornadoes can exacerbate racial segregation through two avenues: abandonment or displacement.
Abandonment — when people leave their damaged homes and resettle elsewhere — is more likely in wealthier counties. Those with the financial resources to move are likelier to be white, increasing “the prevalence of poor African Americans in those communities,” the authors write.
Displacement, meanwhile, happens when access to resources, such as homeowners’ insurance, gives some people the ability to rebuild. Lower-income Black populations are more likely to be renters and lack the financial resources to rebuild in places where tornadoes hit, making them more likely than white people to be displaced from their homes.
Redlining and Housing Segregation Against African Americans
How did Federal Government condone this practice? How was it set into law?
Current Laws and Policies
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