Redlining has come up a lot in conversations about systemic racism but... what is it? And how could a policy that ended in 1968 still have effects today? Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/vyiwk3D-3ag | Extra History

Redlining: How Government Drew Maps to Segregate The U.S. government literally drew maps to decide which neighborhoods Black people could live in. In the 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) created "security maps" of 250 American cities, color-coding neighborhoods based on racial makeup: Green for white ("Best"), Yellow for declining ("mixed races"), and Red for "Hazardous" where Black people lived. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the National Community Reinvestme