Tag: urban history
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Coloring the Gem City: Redlining and the Legacy of Discriminatory Housing in Dayton, Ohio 1900-Present
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Eric Rhodes (History, Class of 2016, Antioch College) “In 1988, Douglas Massey found the housing patterns in Dayton and its suburbs to be the third most racially segregated among the fifty largest metropolitain areas in the United States. According to Massey, the metropolitan areas with higher levels of racial segregation than Dayton were Cleveland, Ohio,…