Redlining Pontiac: A virtual exhibit
From the 1920s through the 1930s, the practice of restricting housing to different races was common across the country.
We’ve created a virtual display of a 1937 map and the description pages used by real estate agents, which shows how racism played a big part in deciding who could live where.
See it here: Redlining Pontiac: Racism in Real Estate
Deed restrictions, like this one for a home on Kemp Street in the GM Modern Housing district, banned anyone who was not white from buying homes there.
Similarly, this deed from a small neighborhood along Cesar Chavez Avenue didn’t restrict everyone, just anyone who was black:
