Equity and Inclusion
in Historic Preservation
We have gathered the following list of resources to help the Madison historic preservation community learn more about underrepresented communities and communities of color.
This list includes many external links and we cannot always know if the destination is still up and running. If you find a link is broken, please send us a message to info@madisonpreservation.org.
Historic Preservation and Social Justice Resources:
Building a Foundation for Action: Anti-Racist Historic Preservation Resources, a list initiated by Erica Avrami and Anna Gasha with the Columbia University’s Urban Heritage, Sustainability, and Social Inclusion Initiative
Towering Insights: The complicated Racial History of the American Skyscraper, profile of Adrienne Brown, Associate Professor of English at University of Chicago
David Rotenstein, My community’s history is racist. How can I correct it? has action ideas that may be relevant
Faye Anderson, Praxis Dialogues: Historic preservation and social justice, impacts of neglecting racial history
Equal Justice Initiative, The Widespread Failure to Preserve African American History
National Trust for Historic Preservation, When Does Preservation Become Social Justice?
National Trust for Historic Preservation, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Where Women Made History
Courtney Ariel, For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
History Projects related to Race and Racism in the Madison Area:
Urban Triage, The History of Redlining and Segregation in Madison WI [Facebook]
Justified Journey documentary and Panel Q&A with Dr. Alex Gee, Founder and President of the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development
Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, Justified Anger African American History Course
100 Black Men of Madison, Inc., African American History Academic Challenge
City of Madison, Underrepresented Communities Historic Resources Survey
Madison Trust Webinars on the Underrepresented Communities Historic Resources Survey:
Part 1: Heather Bailey presents on properties identified relating to Madison’s African-American, Latino, and Hmong communities
Part 2: Jason Tish presents on places where queer history and women's history happened in Madison
Part 3: Bill Quackenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Ho-Chunk Nation, presents on the importance and need to establish their Tribal Historic Preservation Program, and the benefits this entails for their community.
Madison Public Library, Black History Month Events Page (updated each year with videos from past years included)
UW-Madison Black Cultural Center, Black History Month Events (updated each year)
Urban League of Greater Madison, Home Ownership Program
YWCA Madison, Race to Equity Toolkit
UW-Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Evicted in Dane County, Wisconsin: A Collaborative Examination of the Housing Landscape
UW-Madison Public History Project, aimed at recovering the stories of those who experienced prejudice and bigotry on campus
UW News, 13 Demands, a history of the 1969 UW-Madison Black Student Strike
Jacob Gold, Sophia Merry, Peter Newman, The Legacy of Redlining in Madison, Wisconsin
UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Disparity Dialogue
Wisconsin Historical Society, Markers, Monuments, and Meaning webinar series
Division of Continuing Studies Course, Madison in the '60s: Urban Renewal and Civil Rights
Division of Continuing Studies Course, Why Are We Still Talking About Race? Historical Contexts of Today's Racial Conflicts in the U.S.
Sara Alvarado, Three Unsettling Truths About Neighborhood Segregation
Black Herstory 101, podcast hosted by UW-Madison History PhD Dr. Crystal Marie Moten
Where to Support and Connect with Madison Communities of Color:
Madison Magazine, “21 Madison-based organizations that focus on Black empowerment”
Madison365, an online, nonprofit news outlet aimed at covering issues important to communities of color in the Madison area
UMOJA Magazine, a monthly journal of positive, encouraging news about African American people
Black Like Me, podcast hosted by Rev. Alex Gee
Black Oxygen, podcast hosted by Angela Russell and Madison365
2nd Annual Black Artists & Authors Expo by Tara Wilhelmi and Fawn Celley
100 Black Men of Madison, Inc., Ways to Help the 100
ConnectBlack, Madison365’s Black Business Directory
Support Black-Owned Businesses, a list of 181 online stores owned by African Americans
History Projects related to Race and Racism in Other Cities and Regions:
Leah Foltman, Malia Jones, Caitlin Bourbeau, How Redlining Continues To Shape Racial Segregation In Milwaukee, WisContext
Sherman Phoenix, Milwaukee neighborhood redevelopment
The Ways, educational resource on Great Lakes Native Culture and Language, PBS Wisconsin Education
African Heritage, Inc., Appleton, Wisconsin
Mapping Prejudice, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota
Hennepin History Museum, Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis
Hennepin History Museum, Racism, Rent, and Real Estate: Fair Housing Reframing
MinnPost, With covenants, racism was written into Minneapolis housing. The scars are still visible
African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids
Monument Lab, public art and history studio about past, present, and future monuments
City of Portland, Oregon, Historical Context of Racist Planning: A History of How Planning Segregated Portland
Race & Equity Initiative: Final Report & Recommendations, Edina, Minnesota
City of Oakland, Oakland’s History of Resistance to Racism
The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, University of Washington
Battle Creek Coalition for Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Racial History Timeline Project
Pew Trusts, This City Wants to Reverse Segregation by Reviving Neighborhoods, Dallas, Texas
Partnership for the Public Good, A City Divided: A Brief History of Segregation in Buffalo
New America, Indiana Avenue: The Ethinic Cleansing of Black Indianapolis
Eddie Moore, Jr., 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
The New York Times, The 1619 Project
Tree Triage, The (Un)Surprising Link Between Redlining and Shade Trees
Books and Other Offline Resources:
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 by Paige Glotzer (UW-Madison Professor)
Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island by Christy Clark-Pujara (UW-Madison Professor)
Sims, J.R., Iverson, A.A. 2019. Multiple Eviction: An Investigation of Chain Displacement in Dane County, Wisconsin. Urban Affairs Review.
Michelle Robinson, Racial Inequality in the Land of Plenty: Black Life in Madison, Wisconsin - Educational and Housing Disenfranchisement, Political Struggle and Community Resiliency (UW-Madison dissertation)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Evicted: Poverty and Profit the the American City by Matthew Desmond
Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families by Muriel Simms
Growing Up in South Madison by Richard Harris
Madison in the Sixties by Stuart Levitan
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom