A man reviewing a map of racially restrictive covenants

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Mapping Prejudice has worked with a wide variety of media makers and researchers to tell the stories and explain the significance of racial covenants. Below you'll find news stories, presentations, journal articles and resources for educators.

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Mapping Racial Covenants in the United States: A Technical Toolkit

Mapping Racial Covenants in the United States: A Technical Toolkit

Michael Corey and Kirsten Delegard

Academic Publication
Data/GIS for Racial Justice
History of Racial Covenants
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Minneapolis school board denounces racial covenants found at elementary school

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Discharging Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
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The impacts of racially discriminatory housing policies on the distribution of intra-urban heat and tree canopy

Rebecca H. Walker, Kate D. Derickson & Bonnie L. Keeler

Academic Publication
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Covenants and Environmental Justice
History of Racial Covenants
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Mapping Prejudice LibGuide

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Data/GIS for Racial Justice
History of Racial Covenants
Housing Crisis
Reparative Policy
Stories of Resistance
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Educator's Guide

Educator Resource
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Minneapolis Uprising
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Awareness to Action Guide

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
Reparative Policy
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Unlawful Restrictions in Land Records Act

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Discharging Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
Land Use Policy
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Reparations Guide

Educator Resource
Community Activism
Reparative Policy
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Mapping Racist Covenants

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
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Photo of Jolynn Choy, one of hundreds of people who used a city of Minneapolis program to remove a racial covenant on her property that did not allow nonwhite people to live there if they weren’t maintenance staff for a white family.

Minneapolis seeks more homeowners for program to scrub racial covenants

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
Paywall
Reparative Policy
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Stearns County rejects plan to address racial covenants

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Paywall
Reparative Policy
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WAPO A woman walks dogs along the waterfront of the Wharf in Washington, D.C. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post) A recently opened coffee shop in Globeville, a historically Latino neighborhood in Denver that is seeing a wave of new development. (Matthew Staver for the Washington Post) Crowds gather outside the Saturn Bar in the Bywater, a neighborhood in New Orleans that has become majority-White. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Arches rising against market-rate apartments welcome people in.

White people have flocked back to city centers – and transformed them

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Paywall
Zoning
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Inequality even in death: Mankato project finds racial covenants in a cemetery and beyond

Text Media
History of Racial Covenants
Housing Crisis
Land Use Policy
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The process is the product

How Mapping Prejudice uses community co-creation for reparative change

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Data/GIS for Racial Justice
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St. Paul joins effort to clear racial real estate covenants

Text Media
Discharging Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
Housing Crisis
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