Segregation in America | Equal Justice Initiative
Web project combing text, images, and video detailing the history of segregation in America
Mapping Inequality - Redlining in New Deal America
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal. The HOLC issued bonds and then used the bonds to purchase mortgage loans from lenders. Between 1933 and 1935, the HOLC made slightly more than one million loans. - But those loans were based on the analysis of the neighborhoods. This project demonstrates how the HOLC created area descriptions to help to organize the data they used to assign the grades. Among that information was the neighborhood's quality of housing, the recent history of sale and rent values, and, crucially, the racial and ethnic identity and class of residents that served as the basis of the neighborhood's grade. These maps and their accompanying documentation helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice.
African American Great Migration - Africana Age
The top three maps in this collection offer a detailed view of African-America migration out of the south into northern cities in the United States during the Great Depression. Charts show which cities saw black migration from particular southern states.
Race Relations during the Great Depression
Great material from the Center for New History and the Media and Montgomery County Maryland. Lesson has teacher background, questions, primary documents.
In this lesson, students will focus on interactions between "ordinary" Americans seeking to improve their economic circumstances: Did new initiatives (such as the WPA) foster competition or cooperation between the races? Did similar circumstances lead to a sense of solidarity or reinforce notions of "us vs. them"?
Federal Housing Administration Underwriting Manual
Written in 1938, this guide to Federal Housing shows how the federal government and New Deal programs promoted segregation. Teachers can share this link with students and tell them to search the word "racial" - it appears about 16 times in the book. What conclusions can they draw from what they've found? What other questions do they have?
Federal Housing Authority Underwriting manual; underwriting analysis under ... 1936 Apr.. -
Should New Deal lessons include primary documents that evidence the federal support of segregation on a national scale? This section of the 1936 FHA manual document the agency's suggestion that private housing lenders look for restrictive racial covenants in home sale documents when deciding to approve a mortgage. If a lender wanted to have the loan insured by the federal government, they would need to meet these requirements
Segregated By Design - video
16 minute video narrated by "Color of Law" author Richard Rothstein. Active graphics, music and narrative make this an engaging video