This Home Owners’ Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population." Explore the maps with <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/41.947/-87.793&city=chicago-il&adview=full&text=about&adimage=4/62.553/-139.263" target="_blank">with this tool build by Mapping Inequality</a>.