How An Old Map Created Racial Boundaries That Still Define Boston Today
On display through December at the Jamaica Plain Brewery, it features a wall-sized map of Boston, where each neighborhood is assigned a color.
The Undesign The Redline exhibit explores the history of how federal housing policy shaped modern-day neighborhoods.
“Blue and green are the most desirable areas,” said De Simone. “Red is considered hazardous and undesirable.”
All of Roxbury is colored red. The term red-lining was coined in the 1960s, but the practice was formalized in the 1930s, with color-coded maps developed by the federal government.