Arthur and Edith Lee Minnesota history reveals how racial covenants fueled segregation that still impacts neighborhoods today.
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#HousingJustice #MinneapolisHistory #RacialCovenants #BlackHistory #Community
Me standing in front of an announcement for our workshop.
Holding another workshop for homeowners to strike racially restrictive covenants from their property. They want extra forms for their neighbors! Here's our website: ewuracialcovenants.org #AcademicSky #RacialCovenants
#OTD #TDIH #May3, 1948: #SCOTUS: #ShelleyVKraemer: #RacialCovenants prohibiting real estate sales to non-whites are unenforceable.
#McGheeVSipes ##RealEstateCovenants #ThurgoodMarshall #CivilRightsMovement #Segregation #BlackSky
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This 1954 cemetery deed from Clark County, Washington limits burials to "a member of the Caucasian race" six years after Shelly v. Kramer ruled racially restrictive property covenants were a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. #racialcovenants #history
Bluesky #historians, is anyone else here working on #racialcovenants? Washington is about to be the first state in the nation to have located and mapped every racially restrictive property covenant in the state. I'm with a team doing the eastern half. ewuracialcovenants.org
Late to the discussion, but I'm interested to see that Chuck Marohn of #strongtowns , who I often agree with has commented on a challenge of #cville 's #cvilleplanstogether process where less burdensome #zoning is effectively negated by #racialcovenants in many high cost areas #strongtowns […]
