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Redlining Resources
Redlining was a US governmental practice of indicating neighborhoods where banks would not be able to receive federal insurance for mortgages they issued. Maps showing the streets and neighborhoods were developed in the 1930s. Compare these maps to areas where urban renewal projects took place and where highways were built in later years.
- A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America (National Public Radio)
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Interview with the author of the book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein. Includes more information on redlining and its impact. - Where To Find Historical “Redlining” Maps Of Your City (Slate)
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List of websites where redlining maps have been posted. - Redline map of Providence (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
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Direct link to the redline map of Providence from the National Archives and Records Administration. - National Archives Catalog (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
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Search for "redlining map" to locate a map of Providence and other cities. - Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America (University of Richmond)
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Interactive map tool that allows you to explore redline maps from a variety of cities.
Additional Web Resources
- American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress gateway to millions of primary sources relating to American history and life. - Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
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Founders of Black History Month, "the mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community." - Center for Contemporary Black History (Columbia University)
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- The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races (Brown University & University of Tulsa)
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Full content of W.E.B. Dubois and the NAACP's magazine The Crisis from 1910-1922. Digitized by Brown University and the University of Tulsa. - Documenting the American South (U of North Carolina)Digital archive of materials from the University of North Carolina.
- FBI Records: The Vault (Federal Bureau of Investigations)
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Treasure trove of documents from the FBI related to a broad range of investigations. - H-Urban (N-Net)
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H-Urban is "a moderated multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and dissemination of scholarship on urban history and urban studies." Participants include researchers and scholars. - NAACP
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Official website of the NAACP. "The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination." - Africana & Black History (New York Public Library)
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Collection of primary sources from the New York Public Library. - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
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- Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities’ League (UNIA-ACL)
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A "social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive, spiritually governing ruling body, and is founded by persons, desiring to the utmost, to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the world." - Urban League
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Official website of the national Urban League. "The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights."
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