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