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Redlining in a map of Chicago Map of the United States showing the Great Migration, with major routes depicted as wide green arrows moving from Southern states, highlighted in orange, to cities in the North and West such as Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Los Angeles, and Oakland. Black dots mark key destination cities, illustrating the movement of about six million African Americans from the rural South to urban centers between 1916 and 1970. An African American family gearing up for a life-changing road trip Protests against new Black residents Eighth grade students of diverse backgrounds sit at desks in an integrated classroom at Mary E. Curley School in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, attentively listening to the teacher. Urban decay due to white flight A group of residents and activists stand in front of Miami City Hall holding protest signs about affordable housing and gentrification in Little Haiti, with construction cranes and high-rise buildings in the background.
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Redlining in a map of Chicago
A Home Owners' Loan Corporation map of Chicago from 1940 illustrating in red the...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; from the Mapping Inequality website (University of Richmond, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University)
The Great Migration
Between 1916 and 1970 about six million Black Americans relocated from the South...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
An African American family gearing up for a life-changing road trip
Unnamed members of an African American family preparing to leave North Carolina for...
Jack Delano—Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-fsa-8c02701)
Protests against new Black residents
A sign from a protest in Detroit specifying a preference for white residents in a...
Farm Security Administration—Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USW3- 016549-C)
School integration
Eighth-grade students participating in an integrated classroom at the Mary E. Curley...
© Ulrike Welsch—The Boston Globe/Getty Images
Urban decay due to white flight
Chester, Pennsylvania, a close-in Philadelphia suburb that is the oldest city in...
Carol M. Highsmith Archive—Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm-57468)
Gentrification protest
Residents and activists protesting against a proposed office, retail, and residential...
Joe Raedle/Getty Images