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1930s

1930–1939
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Oppression
Redlining is institutionalized

Federal housing agencies map Black neighborhoods as "hazardous," denying them loans for generations.

Resistance
Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial

Barred from Constitution Hall, the contralto performs for 75,000 on the Memorial steps — a civil-rights watershed.

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Key events

  1. June 13, 1933
    Redlining is institutionalized

    Federal housing agencies map Black neighborhoods as "hazardous," denying them loans for generations.

  2. March 25, 1931
    The Scottsboro Boys

    Nine Black teenagers are falsely accused of rape in Alabama, a landmark of Jim Crow injustice.

  3. April 9, 1939
    Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial

    Barred from Constitution Hall, the contralto performs for 75,000 on the Memorial steps — a civil-rights watershed.

Resources from this period