April 17, 1938
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
“Conversion Blamed for Blight” about City of Rochester study (by Harold Rand study was a follow-up on Howard W. Coles’ 1938 housing survey)
https://democratandchronicle.newspapers.com/clip/35429025/rand-blight-caused-by-cheap-building/
June 17, 1939
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
February 1939
Source: State of New York
Race & Place in the Flower City: A Case Study of Perpetual Marginalization through Urban Planning (by Brennon Thompson)
Touches on the impact on Rochester of redlining, urban renewal, the Inner Loop, and dynamics that led to the July 1964 rebellion.
May 3, 2017
Source: medium.com
Rochester’s history provides lessons on racism (by Jeremy Moule)
Local teachers develop antiracist curriculum for Monroe County schools
July 10, 2020
Source: City Newspaper
The Unattainable Dream: Redlining in Rochester, NY (13:40 min) (by Edison Tech students)
August 5, 2022
Source: Edison Career and Technology High School students
A Tale of Two Cities: Redlining & Racist Policies in Rochester, NY (by Simeon Banister & Shane Wiegand’s)
February 10, 2021
Source: TEDx Rochester & Levine Center to End Hate
Resistance Mapping (by Created for the Antiracist Curriculum Project at PathStone)
2022
Source: Digital humanities team at RIT College of Arts & Design
Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America in 600 US municipalities (by Digital Scholarship Lab)
Date Unknown
Source: University of Richmond
Date Unknown
Source: Hosted by CCSI
February 5, 2020 (Updated October 28, 2020)
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
Oct 20, 2016
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
Animated map shows path of Rt. 490 and the Inner Loop–Before & After (by News10NBC Rochester)
Segregated by Design: Animated map–Inner Loop path
February 22, 2024
Source: Instagram
September 9, 1965
Source: WROC-TV
Housing & Urban Renewal: The Rochester Experience (by Bill McKelvey (Rochester City Historian))
October 1965
Source: Rochester History, Rochester Public Library
Third Ward Historic District’ “ruffled shirt district” history
Note the racist coded language in last paragraph re: period of “cancerous decay” in first half of 20th century
1974 (Retrieved online, 2024)
Source: Living Places
Amounts of federal funds spent on urban renewal projects (Rochester amounts on p. 44)
June 30, 1974
Source: US Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD)
“Think About It” (Affordable Housing Crisis in Rochester) (by Dick Tobias, Tom Decker & Dick Burt)
https://vimeo.com/debergeracproductions/review/938431226/c7b72e475d
1968
Source: Metropolitan Housing Committee (with WROC, WHEC, WOKR, WXXI TV)
RIT Relocation won’t hinder Ward Renewal (by Democrat and Chronicle)
Indicates that City may have been banking on urban renewal plans to raze the Clarissa Street community to bargain with RIT to stay and expand their campus in the Third Ward, but that RIT’s decision to leave didn’t change the City’s plans
November 22, 1961
Source: Newspapers.com
February 21, 1994
Source: Democrat & Chronicle via Rochester Voices
Using Urban Renewal Records to Advance Reparative Justice (by Ann Pfau, Kathleen Lawlor, David Hochfelder, Stacy Kinlock Sewell)
June 2024, 10 (2) 113-131
Source: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences
Unknown Date
Source: University of Richmond
Resistance, Rebellion, & Renewal (Progress & Poverty in Rochester) (by College of Liberal Arts faculty committee with RIT students)
Historical 9-part exhibition across three separate periods (1913, 1960s, and 2015), including Clarissa Street history (Click on Exhibitions tab)
2015
Source: RIT Museum Studies program
Out of the Loop: A before and after look at the neighborhoods of the inner loop (Part 1) (by Emily Morry, Rochester librarian)
Part of a 5-part history of Rochester’s Inner Loop (can access the other editions through links at the bottom of the article)
August 2, 2018
Source: Local History Rocs! Office of Rochester and Monroe County History
Razed/Rise: Rebuilding Rochester’s Inner Loop Neighborhoods (by Floating Home Films)
Video (13:37). Part of the Rochester Street Films series focused on transportation policies in Rochester
October 4, 2018
Source: Reconnect Rochester
How highways wrecked American cities
Video (4:38). The Interstate Highway System was both a revolutionary infrastructure project and it destroyed urban neighborhoods across the US.
May 11, 2016
Source: Vox
A history of Interstate Highway System. Focus on how ripped through rural family farms and marginalized urban neighborhoods with devastating impact (45:08 – 1:01:53).
1997
Source: PBS
Divided We Fall: Healthcare Inequities in Syracuse New York (by Robert Bell)
How Highway Rt. 81, along with redlining and urban renewal in Syracuse’s 15th Ward, contributed to long-term health disparities
August 23, 2021
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
Confronting Racial Covenants: How they segregated Monroe County and what to do about them (by City Roots Land Trust with Yale Environmental Protection Clinic)
Study of restrictive covenants in Monroe County
July 31, 2020
Source: Yale Law School
CORD: Confronting our racist deeds (by Residents of Brighton’s Meadowbrook neighborhood)
Homeowners share how they came together to explicitly disavow racist clauses by amending their home deeds
Spring 2021
Source: Meadowbrook CORD
Racial covenants removed from deeds in Brighton neighborhood after 90 years (by Sean Lahman)
Story about CORD removing racially restrictive covenants from 300 home deeds
December 18, 2020
Source: Democrat & Chronicle
How Brighton residents revoked racist property deeds in their neighborhood (by Connections with Evan Dawson)
Meadowbrook neighbors and report facilitators discuss their initiative to reveal and empower people to face down racist policies
December 21, 2020
Source: WXXI
(Un)writing an old wrong in a Brighton Neighborhood (by David Kramer)
Images and story of Meadowbrook neighbors’ campaign to amend their home deeds
December 29, 2020
Source: Talker of the Town
Finding and revoking discriminatory property covenant restrictions (by Carol McAlister)
Instructions for Pittsford residents who want to know and revoke if restrictive covenants are in their home deeds
December 23, 2020 (Retrieved March 2025)
Source: Town of Pittsford, Code Enforcement
