Week 3 Post 3

 Week 3 Post 3- informal summary

    This week's chapter was on racial zoning, and it went through the history of racial zoning in privatized housing. The chapter started with reconstruction post-civil war and went through the process of the beginning of the great migration and black people becoming a larger population margin in Northern cities. With this came sundown towns, and places like Montana became unsafe for black people even though they had no racial discrimination before. The chapter went through all of the places that had controversial racial zoning for housing from the 1910s to the 1960s, and all the decisions that were made in these places to enforce segregation as much as possible. The chapter concluded with an explanation of zoning ordinances that allowed black neighborhoods to have liquor stores, strip clubs, and toxic waste centers and landfills. This made it very difficult for black neighborhoods to stay at the same quality as all white neighborhoods. 

Questions I have going forward:

-  How are areas such as Montana affected today by the sundown town laws of the early twentieth century?

- What has the south offered in comparison to northern cities when it comes to racial zoning?

- How have banks played a role in the financing of these developments?


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  1. Ms. DunleyApril 27, 2023 at 9:34 AM

    How has this zoning played a role in Des Moines?

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    1. Sofia ReamMay 15, 2023 at 3:15 PM

      Des Moines is a less obvious example because of our lower population of African Americans to begin with, but I live in a very white area of Des Moines. The area slightly east of us used to be a predominant black area that was partially destroyed during city developments in the second half of the twentieth century, but there is still a remaining black community. Because of school zoning, Roosevelt draws from the Calannan district, which partially draws from this community, and from Merrill, one of the whitest middle schools in the district.

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