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Todd Michney @ToddMichney

Urban historian and author, #SurrogateSuburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in #Cleveland, 1900-1980 (UNC Press 2017); professor @GeorgiaTech

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Todd Michney@ToddMichney
11 Mar 2022
This month marks five years since my book #SurrogateSuburbs was published by @UNC_Press! You can order a 40% discounted copy using the code 01DAH40: uncpress.org/book/9781469631… #BlackHistory #CLE #BlackMiddleClass
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WTTW - Chicago PBS@wttw
18 Apr 2024
Chicago’s sordid history of being one of the most segregated cities in the United States is detailed in a new four-part documentary series, “Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation.” to.wttw.com/3UnRoFN

‘Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation’ Delves Into Chicago’s History of Segregated Housing

The new docuseries uses firsthand accounts, archival footage and animation to better explain complex practices like redlining and blockbusting, and how Black families were systemically barred from...

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Join us @TechHSOC tomorrow (4/16) at 11am to hear @mguariglia talk on "Race, Technology, and the Origins of Modern Policing," virtually or in person: hsoc.gatech.edu/events/speak…
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Common Edge@CommEdgeCollab
7 Mar 2024
Great piece by @RobertaGratz on the making of #PonchartrainPark in #NewOrleans. #Redlining #BlackMiddleClass #GIBill #Edith&EdgarStern #TerenceBlanchard #GwenThompkins @WendellPierce bit.ly/3IqtUcf

The Making of Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans

How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.

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Join us @TechHSOC today (2/12) at 4pm to hear Prof. @TyinaSteptoe talk on "The Sound of Migration: Black Music and Western Movement," virtually or in person: hsoc.gatech.edu/speaker-seri…
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The Black Wall Street Times
@TheBWSTimes
13 Jan 2024
Luckerson told The Black Wall St. Times the damage urban renewal perpetrated against Greenwood is “a tale almost as old as mob violence, and one that deserves the same level of scrutiny as what happened in 1921.” bit.ly/48pIb4m

Deep Greenwood series returns: Harmful legacy of urban renewal

Victor Luckerson's Deep Greenwood series continues with a discussion on the ways urban renewal negatively impacted the community.

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Mapping Inequality@HOLCRedlining
11 Jan 2024
Mapping Inequality has a cache of new maps and we are hiring people to write essays on those cities! Historians, planners, housing advocates -- if you are interested in writing on one of these cities, please let us know: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

ACLS Available Essays

Allentown, PA Amarillo, TX Asheville, NC Aurora, IL Battle Creek, MI Bay City, MI Beaumont, TX Camden, NJ Canton, OH Chester, PA Darien, CT Decatur, IL Duluth, MN Essex County, NJ* Fort Wayne, IN...

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The upgraded version of "Mapping Inequality," the award-winning, foremost digital resource on New Deal #redlining, just dropped today: dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/re… Kudos and many thanks to @3underscores & @lwinling for the opportunity to contribute to this incredible project
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The upgrade incorporates additional functionality, including interpretive essays on the history of exclusionary real estate in dozens of cities (mine on Cleveland pictured here): dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/re…
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Global Black Studies at Duke
@DukeAAAS
8 Dec 2023
Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line aaihs.org/movie-theaters-the… via @BlkPerspectives

Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line

While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth century, these same cities, like New York, Chicago, Atlantic City, and...

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Ben Crump
@AttorneyCrump
18 Nov 2023
Black entrepreneur Charles E. Davis built around 500 homes to meet the needs of Pittsburgh’s Black middle class! During a time of rampant discrimination, Charles’ developments quickly turned into thriving Black communities. His work is still felt today! nextpittsburgh.com/city-desi…

Charles E. Davis built homes for Pittsburgh’s Black middle class that still endure

The communities that Charles E. Davis and his contemporaries built endure nearly 70 years later as bastions of Black homeownership. 

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The Black Wall Street Times
@TheBWSTimes
15 Nov 2023
Mother Randle's special day comes as the world waits for Oklahoma Supreme Court's next move. The Court has no set schedule to respond. Supporters of the 109-year-old Tulsa Race Massacre survivors can only hope it rules as soon as possible. bit.ly/3SAVQAs

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor turns 109 as high court weighs case

Tulsa Race Massacre survivor "mother" Lessie Benningfield Randle turned 109 with the taste of barbecue and sweet potato pie on her tongue.

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clevelanddotcom
@clevelanddotcom
31 Oct 2023
Located on Cleveland’s southeast side, many of the streets in what some have called “the suburbs in the city” are lined with bungalows, many owned by life-long residents. Read the final installment of our series exploring Cleveland's neighborhoods: cleveland.com/news/2023/10/l…

Lee-Harvard Lee-Seville Cleveland neighborhoods look to future with work on a master plan

Located on Cleveland’s southeast side, many of the streets in what some have called “the suburbs in the city” are lined with bungalows, many owned by life-long residents.

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.@3underscores previewing the new @HOLCRedlining interface on a #UHA2023 panel about mapping & #reparations w/ Njaimeh Nije, Rev. Dale B. Snyder, @lwinling, Brent Cebul & @TomSugrue
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TUESDAY (10/17): @VLuck at @GeorgiaTech on his book about Tulsa's Greenwood aka #BlackWallStreet before and after the 1921 Race Massacre; on panel with me & @EloraRaymond, sponsored by @GATechScheller's DEI book club, @netimpact chapter, @GT_ACSB. Signup: scheller.gatech.edu/events/2…
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The Black Wall Street Times
@TheBWSTimes
12 Oct 2023
💣🔥Tulsa Race Massacre reparations: State studies proposals “I would be open to it,” Republican Chair of the committee Rep. Kevin West said when asked if he would begin conversations in the legislature on the reparations proposals. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 bit.ly/48IKaS1

State studies reparations proposals for Tulsa Race Massacre

Lawmakers at the Oklahoma State Capitol held a hearing to study progress on reparations proposals for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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Mapping Inequality@HOLCRedlining
6 Oct 2023
Dear friends -- the @UR_DSL team is preparing the new @HOLCRedlining site for launch this fall, but there is still time to write an introductory essay on cities. We have Queens and the Bronx still available, Indianapolis, and several smaller cities! docs.google.com/document/d/1…

ACLS Mapping Inequality CFP

Mapping Inequality The team behind Mapping Inequality is expanding the resource as part of an ACLS Digital Extension Grant. We are digitizing more maps, adding new visualizations and a new search...

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Zaria N. Johnson (she/her)@ZariaJohnson24
28 Sep 2023
A local, collaborative project called Green Book Cleveland highlights Northeast Ohio’s historic relationship between race, segregation and access to the outdoors during the Jim Crow Era to ensure the region's Black history is not forgotten. Read more here: ideastream.org/environment-e…

Rediscovering Northeast Ohio’s connection between the Green Book and green space

A local, collaborative project called Green Book Cleveland highlights Northeast Ohio’s historic relationship between race, segregation and access to the outdoors during the Jim Crow Era to ensure the...

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Segregation_by_Design@SegByDesign
27 Sep 2023
"Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped," writes @latimes. The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.
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Great job @GTLibrary in mounting this window into the history of #ATL's Fulton Bag &Cotton Mill, whose records we hold in the GT Archives. On display thru March 2024; more info: library.gatech.edu/news/now-…
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