This racial dot map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country.The map displays 308,745,538 dots, one for each person residing in the United States at the location they were counted during the 2010 Census. The Baltimore city government reacted by adopting a residential segregation ordinance, restricting African Americans to designated blocks. Southeastern Baltimore for years had been the center of the city's Negro community. The Best Map Ever Made of America's Racial Segregation. A powerful new map of the city shows how its current poverty rates match up to racist mortgage policies of the past. Structural Racism and Baltimore: Understanding the Roots of the Uprisings. In Detroit, the most segregated city in America according to one recent study, there's no buffer at all. The HOLC maps, which were digitized by the Mapping Inequality project in 2016, were created by government surveyors to document which neighborhoods local lenders considered “risky”. Baltimore County has a history of overt racial segregation. Towards the end of the nineteenth cen-tury, however, Negroes began buying property in the more de- segregation in public places was established as part of the prevailing social order. segregation in public places was established as part of the prevailing social order. Many of the major tactics used to create state-supported segregation were created by Baltimore civic and economic elites. Before then, Baltimore African-Americans lived all over the city and surrounding counties. In Map 1, the communities in deep purple are 80 percent or more African American ... residential segregation. induced.21 ' Baltimore's history of residential segregation supports Schelling's thesis. In 1910, Baltimore was the first city to enact comprehensive racial zoning laws, designing residential blocks as White or Black based on the majority population. Their overarching goal, as Next City has covered, was to guide lenders making residential loans in the wake of the Great Depression. ... Highlighting the History of Housing Segregation in Baltimore, Maryland and its Impact on the events of April 27, 2015 and beyond Author: Second, the Baltimore segregation ordinances remind us of forgot-ten fears and false forecasts; they caution us of the perils of social plan-ning. Capital flows are one indication of a community’s health and vitality. In the 1970s, it was famously described by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as a "white noose" around the city. The ordinance made it illegal for any black person to live in a white neighborhood, and vice-versa, codifying the existing racially segregated residential patterns in the city into law. In Baltimore in 1910, a black Yale law school graduate purchased a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. ... After Nearly a Century, Redlining Still Divides Baltimore.