Redlining and Home Owners Loan Company with Todd Michney

Todd M. Michney is an Assistant Professor, School of History and Sociology at Georgia Institute of Technology

In this inaugural session of the Heights Library 1619 Project Discussion interviews, we talk to Todd M. Michney, who shares insights from his book "Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980," about redlining and the HOLC's role in housing discrimination.
https://iac.gatech.edu/people/person/...

Read more about the New Deal and the broken promises to African Americans due to redlining and discriminatory lending, in Professor Michney's recent article:
"New Perspectives on New Deal Housing Policy: Explicating and Mapping HOLC Loans to African Americans."
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library's 1619 Project discussion group meets every second Thursday of the month. We discuss how the legacy of slavery remains a dominant factor of American political, cultural, and social spheres. The library program centers on the articles included in the New York Times Special Sunday Magazine dated August 20, 2019.
The program began in October 2019 and has had over 500 people participate. All interviews done by John Piche'.

For upcoming programs, additional readings, and resource lists please visit Heights Library's 1619 Project Discussion page https://heightslibrary.org/services/1...
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