Webinar I: Facing the Long History of Racial Exclusion in Curtis Park

Thursday, September 24th
6:30-8:30pm on Zoom
Moderated by Dennis Cusick, Viewpoint Editor
Panelists: Dan Murphy, SCNA and Curtis Park historian and Ginger Rutland, journalist.

Ginger’s mother’s poignant story about her family being redlined out of Curtis Park in 1952 is excerpted in the accompanying article “The Color Lines that Divided Us.”  Dan and Ginger will look back on the last 100 years of attitudes and practices which kept people of color from purchasing homes in Curtis Park.   These will include early 20^th Century racist norms, exclusionary restrictions in deeds and covenants, as well as redlining by banks.  Some of this will be shocking since very little is written or spoken about these early practices.  Webinar guests will be invited afterwards to contrast their own experiences of buying a house in Curtis Park in contrast with those of the Rutland family.  Discussion will focus on what we can do today to repair some of these past injustices.

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Featured image courtesy of Josh Begley.