The Other America & Redlining

The Other America Refers to?

• South America

• People in poverty

• Rich People

• Public Schooling

How did the white flight effected the economy?

• increase businesses and tax money to city governments

• decrease businesses and tax money to city governments

• didn't effect the economy at all

The Age of Affluence was true for who?

• Wealthy Citizens

• Poor People

• Children

• Poor white people

Suburbs are mostly White/Caucasian ?

• True

• False

Redlining meant that ....

• if you lived in the "green areas" it was easy to qualify for a home loan.

• if you lived in the "red areas" it was super to qualify for a home loan.

The 1930's New Deal Loan Program to finance homes had maps that were?

• Separated but equal

• Colored Coded to be fair to all races

• Color-Coded to favor the green areas with white people

• Color-Coded to favor the red areas with non-white people

William Levitt

• tried really hard to diversify communities.

• systematically prevented Caucasians to buy homes.

• created suburb communities only for people of the Caucasian-Race

• helped non-white families to buy homes.

"White flight" can be described as:

• white people moving into urban areas

• white people moving out of urban areas

• white people investing in urban areas

• white people integrating into desegregated areas