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Title: Color lines in San Bernardino: Mapping Housing Segregation on San Bernardino's Westside

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Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: This StoryMap shows how racially segregated neighborhoods were created in San Bernardino from the 1920s through the 1960s, and how these patterns of segregation shaped schools, city planning and Black-white wealth disparities. It documents the ways restrictive covenants, white vigilante violence, real estate steering, and white flight shaped the color line in San Bernardino as the Black population increased from 1940 through 1970. The StoryMap uses census data newly compiled by a People's History of the I.E. Census Project from IPUMS Ancestry Full Count Data and from IPUMS USA data to visualize the changing patterns of racial segregation from 1940-1970. The StoryMap also draws heavily on the stories of Black elders from the Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the Inland Empire, and on the People's History Map of the Archives which has created a geospatial database that enables us to trace the geography of real estate ads, white vigilante actions, and Black pioneers who crossed the color line.

Url: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cc8794c1eb9041f48b9f43f929841c56

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Authors: Tilton, Jennifer

Publisher: Arcgis

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS USA - Ancestry Full Count Data

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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