Segregation Data for New York City

Last week I went to a Facing History and Ourselves workshop about civil rights in America. We use a lot of Facing History tools in our classroom, especially as we studied school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was a great workshop and it made me ask a lot of questions about the way we teach history. However, one of the most interesting parts of the workshop was a session in the afternoon on segregation in New York City. If you are interested, take a look at the website below and play with the census maps to see just how segregated (or integrated) New York is. You can also compare this to other parts of the country.

• Is New York City segregated? Take a look at this interactive map at the Anti-Discrimination Center website.
• Go to "2000 Congress. Districts"
• Then click on "race"
• Then play with the different %
• Lastly, zoom in on New York City. What do you notice? Zoom in on other cities to make comparisons.