A few weeks ago, we explored redlining, a discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
Redlining goes back many decades and restricted where people could live, and resulted in people being denied the ability to live in a home they really wanted, simply because of where their house was located and their race.
At the time, I mentioned how we would soon have a show as a sort of companion piece on who historically has lived where, in terms of groups of people.
Siouxland Public Media Staion Mark Munger some months ago told me he wanted a show that digs into what people first lived in what downtown areas of the city, and how that evolved and changed over decades as the city's area and population grew.
So the time is at hand for that story, and the guests illuminating that history are Karen Mackey, the Executive Director of the Sioux City Human Rights Commission, and Sioux City Public Museum Archives Manager Tom Munson.
*Click on the audio link above to hear the entire show.
What's The Frequency, Episode 114.
