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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 19, 2021
Di Minardi
di.minardi@gatech.edu
Summary Sentence:
HSOC Assistant Professor Todd Michney published an op-ed titled "Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's Peculiar Place in the History of Redlining" in the Savannah Morning News.
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Savannah, GATodd Michney, assistant professor in the School of History and Sociology, published an op-ed titled "Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's Peculiar Place in the History of Redlining" in the Savannah Morning News.
In it, Michney explores an anomaly he discovered during his redlining research in Savannah: "The only known Black neighborhood in the country that HOLC evaluators, working in the depths of the Great Depression, did not downgrade on the basis of race."
Read the full op-ed here: "Historian: Savannah's and Cuyler-Brownville's Peculiar Place in the History of Redlining"
