Maps of Redlining
Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935
Context: To help alleviate some of the problems from the Great Depression, the federal government tried to make home ownership more attainable. In the process, it asked communities and banks to determine areas where investments were safest. This process turned large parts of areas being preserved for mortgages exclusively to whites, and other areas (shaded in red) reserved for non-whites. Those red areas were in the poorer parts of the area with worse access to service and transportation. These maps were all from the National Archives and help illustrate that racial segregation was created both by law (de jure) and by the actions of private individuals and businesses (de facto), not just limited to the Jim Crow south.
Context by: Prof. Seth Offenbach
Redline Map of New Orleans, Louisiana
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Created by: Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935. Original located in National Archives.
Redline Map of Providence, Rhode Island
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Created by: Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935. Original located in National Archives.
Redline Map for Richmond, Virginia
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Created by: Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935. Original located in National Archives.
Redline Map for Atlanta, Georgia
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Created by: Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935. Original located in National Archives.
Redline Map for Birmingham, Alabama
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Created by: Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, 1935. Original located in National Archives.
