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1. www.democratandchronicle.com › in-depth › newsHow Rochester’s growing city and suburbs excluded black residents

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   Feb 5, 2020 · A 1968 Urban League report, summarizing scores of housing complaints it had brought to the state Division of Human Rights, concluded that housing discrimination in Rochester was “less direct,...

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2. www.yahoo.com › news › rochesters-whites-only-racialRochester's whites-only racial covenants covered the living ...

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   May 11, 2024 · May 11—ROCHESTER — Two years ago, a Rochester group began digging into the city's past as part of a historical reckoning into the use of racial covenants that once barred Blacks and other...

3. storymaps.arcgis.com › stories › 27f6ee9254cf44e88bfMapping Segregation In Rochester, NY - ArcGIS StoryMaps

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   Nov 8, 2023 · In the case of Rochester, the lives of current Black and Hispanic residents continues to be shaped by segregation of Italian, German, and Polish immigrants of the early 20th century. What Was Rochester Like? What Happened to Rochester? A "Bad" Neighborhood Turns Worse.

4. www.democratandchronicle.com › story › localWorst schools in America? Rochester, NY, by many measures

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   Jun 6, 2018 · Rochester has the poorest children in New York and the most intense metro segregation in the state. Graduation rates are crawling up, but RCSD is running out of solutions it hasn't tried. There...

5. rbscp.lib.rochester.edu › blog › look-city-rochesterA Look into the City of Rochester's Past | RBSCP

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   Aug 22, 2018 · With the influx of thousands of black families from southern states to Rochester, the city was not structurally or institutionally prepared to house and integrate these families into city living. As a result, black families lived in two historically black neighborhoods: Corn Hill and Group 14621, formerly known as the Baden-Ormond neighborhood.

6. reporter.rit.edu › news › redlining-rochesterRedlining in Rochester - Reporter

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   Feb 11, 2022 · Rochester’s white majority schools, segregated through the aforementioned redlining, annually held minstrel shows — live entertainment characterized by racist caricatures. Parents even had their children perform in blackface. Black schools, on the other hand, faced funding issues due to redlining.

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   Is Rochester a segregated state?

   • Rochester combines that punishing poverty with extreme racial and economic segregation. A 2014 analysis by the UCLA Civil Rights Project found New York to be the most segregated state in the country, and Rochester to have not only the poorest children in New York but also the most intense metro segregation in the state.

   Worst schools in America? Rochester, NY, by many measures

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   Why are Rochester's schools segregated?

   • Rochester’s black schools faced funding issues due to redlining. In contrast, white majority schools were segregated through redlining and annual minstrel shows, where parents even had their children perform in blackface.

   Redlining in Rochester

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   How did Rochester find a segregated housing market?

   • The search was slow-going and incremental: Volunteer researchers searched a database for decades-old Olmsted Country property records and keywords to establish the contours of Rochester's past segregated housing market. The document search was a form of "root canal," one researcher said.

   Rochester's whites-only racial covenants covered the living and the dead

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   What happens after a racial discharge in Rochester?

   • Once the discharge takes effect, the homeowner will be able to post a sign that advertises it. May 11—ROCHESTER — Two years ago, a Rochester group began digging into the city's past as part of a historical reckoning into the use of racial covenants that once barred Blacks and other minorities from living in parts of the city.

   Rochester's whites-only racial covenants covered the living and the dead

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   Did Rochester have a segregated burial ground?

   • A group of Mankato searchers, in a similar effort of historical reckoning, found one in their city, too. The discovery that Rochester once had a segregated burial ground was made possible through technology that has both made the search for such covenants easier and expanded the universe of such searches, including cemeteries.

   Rochester's whites-only racial covenants covered the living and the dead

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   Was there housing discrimination in Rochester?

   • The 1968 Urban League report concluded that housing discrimination in Rochester was 'less direct, more subtle', indicating an 'advanced state of perpetuation of discrimination'.

   How Rochester’s growing city and suburbs excluded black residents

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8. www.democratandchronicle.com › story › localRochester's history of segregation still shapes the city's ...

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   Jun 6, 2018 · The black population in Rochester was statistically insignificant until the mid-20th century, when waves of black migrant workers from the Orlando, Florida, area and elsewhere came north, first...