Learn about our team of historians, geographers, librarians, digital humanists and community activists seeking to expose structural racism.
What is a Covenant?
Racial covenants are clauses that were inserted into property deeds to prevent people who are not White from buying or occupying land.
Maps & Data
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Learn more about racial covenants
Jim Crow of the North
This one hour, Emmy Award-wining documentary uses the history of racial covenants in Minneapolis to explore the complex history of discriminatory housing policies and their contemporary legacies.
Mapping Prejudice reveals how racial covenants shaped Ramsey County
After mapping the impact of housing discrimination in Hennepin County, homeowners in Ramsey County can now see the history hiding in their home titles.
