Living in Grand Rapids: A Historic Look at Red Lining with Grand Rapids Public Museum

The Grand Rapids Public Museum, along with the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, brought a panel together that took a historic look a how housing segregation has shaped Grand Rapids.
Titled, “The 14th Amendment: Learning, Living, and Loving in Grand Rapids,” the GRPM series focused on the Supreme Court decision in Shelley vs. Kraemer (1948), which held that private racially restrictive covenants could not be enforced by the state, and the Fair Housing Act (1968), which protects people from discrimination when they seek housing.