That process concentrated Black people in neighborhoods prone to discrimination. Local governments steered power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities to Black neighborhoods ...
Starting in the 1930s, the federal government sorted neighborhoods in 239 cities and deemed redlined areas — typically home to Black people, Jews, immigrants, and poor white people — unfit for ...
That process concentrated Black people in neighborhoods prone to discrimination. Local governments steered power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial facilities to Black neighborhoods ...