From Red Lines to Repair: A Miami History and Equity Tour

From Red Lines to Repair: A Miami History and Equity Tour is a one-day, immersive bus tour and facilitated learning experience that brings together local residents, college students, and an interfaith, multiracial book club to explore the history and present-day impact of redlining, segregation, and the racial wealth gap in Miami.

Participants will travel by chartered bus through Liberty City, Brownsville, and Overtown, learning how federal housing policy, local zoning decisions, and infrastructure projects like I‑95 shaped—and continue to shape—these historic Black neighborhoods. Along the way, the group will visit landmark sites such as the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum, Greater Bethel AME Church, Historic Hampton House, Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, and Overtown cultural anchors like the Lyric Theater and Longshoremen Mural.

At midday, participants will share lunch together and engage in a facilitated racial wealth gap/redlining simulation led by Bread for the World Institute, connecting national policy history and economic data to the neighborhoods they have just experienced firsthand. The day will close with guided reflection on repair, shared prosperity, and what civic responsibility looks like in Miami today.

• Narrated bus tour of Liberty City, Brownsville, and Overtown
  
• Guided visits to key historic and cultural sites (museums, churches, landmarks, and reflection spaces)
  
• Late lunch and facilitated racial wealth gap/redlining simulation with Bread for the World Institute
  
• Structured opportunities for dialogue, questions, and reflection with trained facilitators
  

By the end of the day, participants will:

• Connect Miami’s redlining and highway history to contemporary racial wealth gaps and neighborhood inequities.
  
• Understand how housing, banking, zoning, and development decisions have shaped Black communities in Miami.
  
• Reflect on what repair and shared prosperity can look like in their own congregations, institutions, and neighborhoods.

• Build relationships across race, faith, and geography through shared learning and conversation.

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Host or Publisher South Florida People of Color