Modern Liberty Park

ID: 5695 ~ Source: Courtesy of Google Maps
This file appears in: Redlinging's Lingering Shadows
Modern Liberty Park

All but 3 acres of the original Liberty Park remain. The 18 acres sold to the state government were leveled for the building of I-90. Many of the surrounding housing developments available to black residents were also demolished.

This file appears in: Redlinging's Lingering Shadows

By Julianna Amante
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. From the 1930s to the 1960s in Spokane, these colors dictated whether you could obtain an insured mortgage on a home. HOLC maps, or Redlining maps, were color-coded maps that separated neighborhoods by race, housing…