This is the last week to see “Redline,” a Birmingham Museum of Art exhibit showing how racially discriminatory loan practices of the early 20th Century shaped and are still shaping Birmingham.

The exhibit created by Birmingham artist Celestia Morgan, will be on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art until Feb. 23. The exhibit was originally scheduled to end on Feb. 16, but was extended.

In the 1930s, the Federal Housing Administration began denying mortgages to prospective homeowners based on their race, religion and immigration status to prevent residents from building wealth.

This discrimination was termed “redlining” as the red lines drawn on maps by bankers and federal officials deemed areas where people of color lived as “hazardous” or “declining.”

The exhibit features maps of Birmingham drawn in 1929 and 1933. A 1933 map drawn by Birmingham city engineer A.J. Hawkins uses a color code to label properties from the best to the most underdeveloped. The color code also labels areas of “negro concentration” as “hazardous.”

The map from 1929 uses codes to refer to the racial and economic status of residents in those areas.

The exhibit also features images of the effects of redlining in the city, including images of homes in redlined neighborhoods and black and white images of the Interstate 59/20 bridges, which contributed to the divide between neighborhoods and the resources in the city.

Morgan took the borderlines of redlined neighborhoods and laid them over an image of blue skies, invoking the idiom “the sky’s the limit” to draw attention to how redlining stifled these communities. The neighborhoods displayed include Kingston, West End, Fountain Heights, Southtown, Woodlawn, Smithfield, North Birmingham, Inglenook, Titusville, Ensley and East Birmingham.

Through the doorway in the back of the exhibit, there are three questions, one on each wall. In the middle of the room, there’s a table with sticky notes and pencils where visitors can write their answers to the questions: “What inspires you about your neighborhood?” “How has redlining affected you or people you know?” and “What makes a neighborhood?”

The last day to answer those questions via sticky note is Sunday, Feb. 23. Admission to the Birmingham Museum of Art is free. It’s open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. To 5 p.m. and Sunday 12 to 5 p.m. The museum is at 2000 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr. Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35203.