Redlining Los Angeles County
http://salt.unc.edu/T-RACES/mosaic.html (dead link 2/19/2016) Documenting neighborhoods of color since the 1930's. Wiki : Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of services such as banking , insurance , access to jobs , [2] access to health care, [3] or even supermarkets [4] to residents in certain, often racially determined, [5] areas. The term "redlining" was coined in the late 1960s by John McKnight, a Northwestern University sociologist and community activist. [6] It describes the practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate the area where banks would not invest; later the term was applied to discrimination against a particular group of people (usually by race or sex ) no matter the geography. During the heyday of redlining, the areas most frequently discriminated against were black inner city neighborhoods. For example, in ...
