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history 02 · 01 DENIED The second fire of Black Wall Street. history 02 · 08 CLEARANCE Detroit's clean word for taking a Black neighborhood history 02 · 15 REDLINE The map looked calm. The decades after it did not. history 05 · 17 BLIGHT Mill Creek Valley was starved, then called blighted, then cleared. dispatch 07 · 12 ACTION PLAN Russell City was not a slum. It was a town with a blues circuit, a carnival, and a ladies' social club. The county froze it, starved it, and then found it blighted. dispatch 07 · 15 DESIGNATED Fourteen cultural districts existed in California before this one. None of them was Black. The last time the state drew lines on this map, it ran a freeway through it.

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NEW ABANDONED COURTESY DIGITAL USER ACCOUNT REFUSE UNNECESSARY PREDICTIVE Ellora Derenoncourt Built the Line DESIGNATED SUBSTANTIAL AND EFFECTIVE COMPLIANCE ACTION PLAN POSTPONED RECARVED ROBESON Without a Word for It What Was Buried, Not Broken Money's A Loan Before It's A Thing NAMING MACHINE BLIGHT REDLINE CLEARANCE DENIED