This week in Maps & Cityscapes you will find two segments: A map showing the 1961 Freedom Rides (see 3rd section of Professor Mayer’s lecture this week); and a second piece focused on the Seattle Open Housing campaign. We also provide recommended web resources.
1961 Freedom Rides map
Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides. [New York]: Associated Press Newsfeature, [1962]. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Seattle's Open Housing Campaign
Seattle's open housing campaign is a case history coinciding with the national civil rights movement. Here are a few images to illustrate the Seattle story, and maps showing Seattle population data. Visit the links provided below for excellent resources.
Click to enlarge and view captions.Flyer for this march for Open Housing
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Source: Images from the Digital Document Library, Seattle Municipal Archives.
| Click on the links provided here to view Seattle population maps showing: | ||
| 1920 Negro population, Seattle | 1960 Negro population, Seattle | 1960 Indian population, Seattle (none available for 1920) |
Web Resources
Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and Demonstrations, LOC
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html
The Strategy, Historical places of the Civil Rights Movement, NPS
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/strategy.htm
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, , University of Washington
African Americans and Seattle's civil rights history
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/African%20Americans.htm#maps
Seattle Segregation Maps 1920-2000
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregation_maps.htm
Segregated Seattle
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm
American Indian Women's Service League: ?Raising the Cause of Urban Indians, 1958-71
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/AIWSL.htm
First sit-in arrests of Seattle's civil rights movement occur on July 25, 1963.
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3162
The Seattle Open Housing Campaign, 1959-1968 - Document List, Digital Document Library, Seattle Municipal Archives
http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/doclibrary/OHousing/OHlist.shtml
A case study in local fair housing: Seattle, Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_housing [scroll down]