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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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Mapping racial covenants in Minnesota
So far, Mapping Prejudice volunteers have helped us find and map more than 26,000 racial covenants in Minnesota's Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
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.
Today, Minneapolis has some of the worst racial disparities in the United States. In this talk, Mapping Prejudice co-founder, Kevin Ehrman-Solberg shows how these contemporary disparities are rooted in the spatial practices of the past.
