Websites:

  • UnDesign the Red Line
  • African American Museum of Iowa
  • The Shame of Iowa and the Midwest
  • Iowa Pathways: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan in America and In Iowa
  • NPR: Interactive Redlining Map Zooms in On America's History of Discrimination
  • "Black Laws" of 1861, 1864 and 1878, March 10,1886
  • Diversity and Disparities: Des Moines City
  • A 'Forgotten History' of How the U.S. Government Segregated America
  • Urban Institute
  • America is more diverse than ever — but still segregated
  • Metro areas are still racially segregated But it’s more complicated than “chocolate city, vanilla suburbs”
  • Planetizen: Racial Segregation
  • Racial Dot Density Map
  • Reports and Papers

  • A Farmer and the Ku Klux Klan in Northwest Iowa by Dorothy Schwieder
  • Public Housing Timeline, 1933-1993
  • Underwriting Manual of 1938
  • African-Americans In Iowa: 2019
  • Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
  • Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012
  • Books

  • Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification
  • Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
  • So You Want to Talk About Race
  • American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Between the World and Me
  • Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race