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Testimonies

Curated accounts of racial injustice. Public-domain narratives from the Federal Writers' Project (1936–1938) sit alongside contemporary contributions — every entry carries the source it was retrieved from.

Housing & Redlining US — Northeast · 1938

Reading the 1938 HOLC Residential Security Maps

The Home Owners' Loan Corporation produced color-coded neighborhood-risk maps used to deny mortgage credit to Black neighborhoods. The maps are now archived at the National Archives and digitized by the Mapping Inequality project.

Editorial note — platform staff

Other US — South · 1937

The Federal Writers' Project: 'Born in Slavery' Collection

Between 1936 and 1938 the Federal Writers' Project recorded over 2,300 first-person accounts from formerly enslaved people across 17 states. The collection sits in the public domain and is hosted by the Library of Congress.

Public-domain archive — Federal Writers' Project 1936–1938

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