Redlining and Urban renewal affects on Black wall street
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This tells about how Urban renewal and Redlining affected Greenwood and really all of Black Wall street.
Storyboard Text
- Redlining
- Have you heard of Redlining? this stuff is outrageous!
- Yeah, I have heard of it we don't deserve to be treated like this and we shouldn't be left out of anything
- Urban renewal
- My business has done nothing to you guys so why are you getting rid of it!
- Sorry man but were gonna have to bulldoze your business, you have no say in this.
- Battling Urban renewal
- WE DID IT!WE REBUILT OUR BUSINESSES!
- Redlining was wherein 1934 the American government started to make homeownership more affordable for white middle-class Americans. They made maps that rated areas based on their ability of those neighborhoods to pay back a loan. Black and immigrant neighborhoods were colored red. The red neighborhoods could not get a loan. This process, also known as Redlining, resulted in 98% of government-backed loans from 1934 to 1962 going to white Americans.
- Urban renewal, are projects designed to replace buildings that are considered run down with public projects such as parks, roads, or other buildings. Renewal is supposed to be to improve the area. However, urban renewal projects often remove the residents of these areas and aren’t always successful at improvement. Further, they disproportionately impact people of color, the poor, and/or the elderly. this led to many businesses being destroyed to make a new highway
- the city of Tulsa tore down more than 150 acres of Greenwood, butCommunity members fought urban renewal and saved the remaining block of businesses. The remaining buildings of Deep Greenwood include the Vernon AME Church, the Mabel B. Little House, and the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Since then, it has been a place for celebration, commemoration, and coming together.
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