Chicago Racial Demographics changing over time. This animated .gif shows the growth and expansion of Chicago's segregated black ghettoes on the south and west sides. Very dramatic. Uses census data, 1910-200
This is a frame by frame look at the maps in the Chicago Racial Segregation .gif. Information in the maps from the Chicago Area Geographic Information Study
Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s. These maps created the practice and the term redlining. Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.
Profiles on 13 Black Minnesotas. #4 Fearless from the West, on Lena Smith, MN's first African American woman lawyer, includes discussion of mob violence directed at the African American Lee family. The Lee Family integrated a previously all-white South Minneapolis neighborhood.
from an exhibit this includes a timeline of the historic black neighborhood in Detroit that was overcrowded and than destroyed by urban renewal and highway construction
This web project accompanies the book Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (PennPress, 2008). It presents four interactive series of maps, each touching on a major theme developed in the book