Site Title: Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Why Persuade?
    • Land Speculation
    • Commercial Competition
    • Advertising Brands
    • Nationalism and Imperialism
    • Inciting War
    • Waging War
    • Electoral Campaigns
    • Ideological Battles
    • Protest and Dissent
  • How The Lines Get Bent
    • Squashing the Globe
    • Cartographic Techniques
    • Figures of Facts
    • Demystifying Data
    • Same Data, Different Stories
    • Maps in the Media
  • The Power to Make Belief
    • Truth as a Social System
    • Authority and Authoritativeness
    • Race and Empire
    • Inventing a Language of Symbols
    • Borders, Nations, and Territory
    • Mapping Ourselves
  • Education Activities
    • Introduction for Educators
    • Glossary for Students
  • Exhibition Events
  • About This Exhibition
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
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Chicago “The color of civil rights.” In Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception. Boston: Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 2020. https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/power-belief/3.2.8/.
MLA “The color of civil rights.” Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception, Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 2020. https://www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibitions/bending-lines/power-belief/3.2.8/. Accessed DD Mon. YYYY.
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Indiana Historical Society

The color of civil rights

TitleSegregation Builds Barriers
CreatorIndiana Civil Rights Commission
Year1967
Dimensions57 × 45 cm
LocationMadam C.J. Walker Supplemental Collection, Indiana Historical Society
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