In a message dated 9/9/2003 5:05:39 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Does any listmember know the historic boundaries of the redline (within
>  which people of color could buy)?

If I remember my history correctly, until the early 1970s FHA had maps with 
the red lines to mark the boundaries between areas where Negroes (that's the 
term they used back then) and certain colored people could and couldn't reside. 
Hence the term "redlining." Lenders, real estate agents, landlords, and 
developers generally knew where the boundaries where and could refer to an FHA map 
to make sure they were not lending, selling, and leasing a particular property 
to a person of the wrong 'race' or color. 

-Doug Mann
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