This website is the culmination of a research project into the Roanoke VA segregation district’s legislation, and effects in the early 20th century. The purpose of this project is to bring forth an understudied period of Roanoke’s history with segregation and put into chronology. Roanoke city has made many efforts to discuss, understand and represent later periods of discrimination, such as lynchings and urban renewal, but has yet to address the ordinance creating the segregation district in a meaningful way. Ordinance 2470 was passed through City Council on May XX, 1911, following similar legislation in
Along the top bar are several informational pages, including a timeline and story map for you to use to explore the project and learn more about this period of segregation history in the South’s “Miracle city”.