{"id":45585,"date":"2012-03-09T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=45585"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T15:13:39","slug":"1937-map-of-segregated-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/09\/1937-map-of-segregated-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"1937 Map of Segregated Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trudi Abel, who directs the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldurham.duke.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Durham Project<\/a> at Duke University, sent in a map she thought we might like to post. Created by the Department of Public works in Durham, NC, in 1937, the map illustrates the legal and taken-for-granted racial segregation of the time. The map indicates which parks and residential areas were for Whites and which for African Americans:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-6.51.16-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45586\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-6.51.16-AM-500x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-6.51.16-AM-500x139.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-6.51.16-AM.png 949w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The map:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-7.03.22-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45587\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-7.03.22-AM-500x455.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-7.03.22-AM-500x455.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/03\/Screen-shot-2012-03-09-at-7.03.22-AM.png 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously you can&#8217;t see much, other than a general idea of which parts of town each race lived in. Go to the Digital Durham website and <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaldurham.duke.edu\/images\/full\/dduma010340010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">click on the map<\/a> for a version that lets you zoom in to read all the details.<\/p>\n<p>You might also want to check out our posts on a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/30\/1934-philadelphia-redlining-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">1934 redlining map of Philadelphia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/30\/2010-census-data-on-residential-segregation\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010 Census data on segregation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trudi Abel, who directs the Digital Durham Project at Duke University, sent in a map she thought we might like to post. Created by the Department of Public works in Durham, NC, in 1937, the map illustrates the legal and taken-for-granted racial segregation of the time. The map indicates which parks and residential areas were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1826,253,8080,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-45585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geographymaps","tag-history","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45589,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions\/45589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}