In the mid-1970s, civil rights activists painted a red line down Seattle’s Central District that went along 14th Avenue from Yesler Way to Union Street. The minor vandalism was a protest against the city’s discriminatory practices, specifically by its banks, that restricted where people could buy homes based on race or ethnicity. In 1975, the Central Seattle Community Council Federation published a report claiming that the lending practices of Seattle’s banks as related to redlining were “destroying our neighborhoods.” ...