Redlining Project

In 2019, a 24/7 Wall St. study marked Racine, Wisconsin as the second worst city for Black Americans. In these slides and the accompanying data visualization, discover how the continuing gaps between Black and white residents of Racine are rooted in decades-old redlining practices.

Redlining nationally

A documentary film, “Segregated by Design”

• Segregated by Design

Projects from the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond:

• Mapping Inequality showing original HOLC maps and comments nationally: Mapping Inequality

• Not Even Past tracking the relationship between HOLC regions and social vulnerability: Not Even Past

Redlining locally

A video by Dr. Helen Meier of UW-Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health:

• Dr. Meier's video (first video on the page)

The Not Even Past project, social vulnerability for Racine:

• Not Even Past, Racine

An article in the Racine Journal Times on redlining in Racine County:

• How did we get here? A look back at redlining in Racine County