Redlining & housing discrimination
Richmond's racial zoning ordinances
Ordinance adopted April 1911; a second ordinance struck down in 1930Richmond City Hall, and the blocks the ordinances divided, VA
Richmond made residential segregation city law in 1911, barring Black families from blocks where most residents were white. When the Supreme Court struck such ordinances down, the city wrote a new one on top of the Racial Integrity Act - and lost that one too, in 1930.
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.