Roadmap Region

Lecture 6
February 9th, 2015

If you had three apples and four oranges in

one hand and four apples and three oranges in
the other hand, what would you have?

Paper Grading has

started!

Announcements

Looking for a new coseminar lead!

Still accepting CCRA

applications!

Understand how our work in Dream Project is rooted

in the history of the region and inequities in our society

Examine Seattles history of Segregation and the

change in demographics of South King County

Learning Goals

Understanding gentrification and how it has

affected the communities we serve

Understanding the terms: restrictive covenants,

redlining, and steering

Provide context to why we mentor, who we mentor

and where we mentor

To start us
off

What are some major factors that

contribute to Educational Inequity? In
what ways are students privileged or
underprivileged in K-12 education?

Housing segregation contributes to educational

inequities

Why it Matters

School you
attend (IB/AP
classes, College
Prep, Books)

Amount of Resources
& Opportunities
available (jobs,
health insurance)

Access and Equity Issue

School
Districts We
Work With

Seattles Segregation
Story
Seattle has a long history of racial
Seattles
discrimination and segregation. Until
Segregation
the late 1960s, African Americans,
Asian Americans, and Native
Story
Americans were shut out of most
neighborhoods, schools, many
occupations, and sometimes stores
and restaurants.

The map at right shows the residential

segregation of African Americans in Seattles
Central District in 1960.

For educational use only.

Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

2006 % Poverty 2010 % Nonwhite

What caused
the shift in
demographics
in this area?

What is Gentrification?

Central District
1960
White
28.5%
Black
54.4%
"Other 17.1%
Asian/PI
Native
Latino
Mixed

Sources: Data from www.socialexplorer.com for 7 census districts. 2010 map

extracted from the interactive Racial Dot map produced by Dustin A. Cable for the
Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.

2010
49.1%
22.3%

14.7%
0.5%
7.8%
5.1%

What are some

causes of
Gentrification?

Restrictive Covenants
Redlining
Racial Steering

Restrictive
Covenants

Greenlake neighborhood: No person or

persons of Asiatic, African, or Negro blood,
lineage or extraction shall be permitted to
occupy a portion of said property or any
building theron except a domestic servant who
may actually and in good faith be employed by
white occupants of such premises
Queen Anne neighborhood: No person or
persons of Asiatic, African or Negro blood
lineage, or extraction shall be permitted to
occupy a portion of said property.
Capital Hill : That no part of said premises
shall ever be used or occupied by or sold
conveyed, leased, rented, or given to negroes
or any person or persons of negro blood,
Renton : No race or nationality other than
those of the Caucasian race shall use or occupy
any dwelling on any lot, except that this
covenant shall not prevent occupancy by
domestic servants of a different race or
nationality employed by an owner or tenant.

Redlining

Racial Steering

Desegregation or Resegregation?
In 1968, the federal government
passed a law banning housing
discrimination. Under pressure,
the city council passed a similar
Fair Housing ordinance.
Change came slowly. It was not
until the 1980s that
desegregation began and the
effects have been uneven.
North Seattle remains 75% white
while nonwhite populations have
moved south.
2010 nonwhite population distribution

Road Map Region

Goal: Double the number of students in South King
County and South Seattle who are on track to
graduate from college or earn a career credential
by 2020.

The Road Map Project is a community-wide effort aimed at

improving education to drive dramatic improvement in student
achievement from cradle to college and career in South King
County and South Seattle.

The Road Map Project believes:

Race and poverty level should not determine
educational attainment.
All students can learn and achieve at high levels if they
are given the opportunity and the support.

What the Road

Map Project is
Doing

The Road Map Project seeks

To close the longstanding and unacceptable
achievement gaps that exist between white students
and students of color.
To make changes in our institutions, practices and
policies to better serve students and their families.

Our future depends on our ability to educate those who

in prior generations have been left behind.

No one organization or person working alone can achieve great

results at the scale we need, were apart of a collective effort.

Dream Projects niche:

How does Dream

Project fit?

Supporting low income first generation high school students

within the Road Map Region through the college application
process

Exit Slip

Besides housing segregation, what

are some other factors that
contribute to educational inequity?
How do they affect it?
Feel free to draw from personal
experiences or anything else.