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System of oppression · 1933–1968

Redlining & Housing Discrimination

Federal and private practices that denied Black families mortgages and trapped them in disinvested neighborhoods.

On the timeline

June 13, 1933
Redlining is institutionalized
Federal housing agencies map Black neighborhoods as "hazardous," denying them loans for generations.

Resources

Research· 1937· Primary

HOLC "residential security" redlining maps

University of Richmond

Digitized 1930s redlining maps with the original appraisals.