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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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Open Rivers

Rethinking the Mississippi

Playground of the People? Mapping Racial Covenants in Twentieth-Century Minneapolis

Academic Publication
Covenants and Environmental Justice
Data/GIS for Racial Justice
History of Racial Covenants
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A still showing Kirsten Delegard on TPT channel 2 public television, sitting and speaking.

TPT

TPT: Historic Housing Segregation in Minneapolis: Kirsten Delegard details a project that maps the racial covenants of a bygone era.

Video
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
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Jade Holman, a white man is standing with crossed arms in front of a white and brown house.

Star Tribune

Massive project works to uncover racist restrictions in Minneapolis housing deeds.

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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Southwest Journal

Dateline Minneapolis: Tracing the legacy of prejudice.

Text Media
History of Racial Covenants
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Outdoor headshot of Taiyon J. Coleman wearing glasses and a magenta scarf.

Minnesota Alumni

Making the Invisible Visible

A project at the U maps Minneapolis's history with racial housing covenants.

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
Reparative Policy
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Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

How racist was your neighborhood?

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
History of Racial Covenants
Reparative Policy
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A grey street grid with the words in black at an upward angle: "OWNING" and below it the words "UP" where inside the U is a grey house and inside the "p" is a smaller black house

Southwest Journal

Exhibit documents housing discrimination.

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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Looking at a young black kid ride a bike in a neighborhood from the back

Fox 9

Fox 9 Presents: North at a Crossroads - Documentary explores the inherent contradictions of Minneapolis' racial inequality.

Documentary
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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3 college students looking at an interactive exhibit about housing.

UMN College of Design Blog

Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis.

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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VERVE

Placemaker's Post

Project Director, Kirsten Delegard, talks Mapping Prejudice origins, impact and future.

Text Media
History of Racial Covenants
Housing Crisis
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Minnesota Daily

UMN faculty research guides Minneapolis 2040 plan

Text Media
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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Star Tribune

Measure Allowing Minnesota Homeowners to Renounce Racist Language on Titles Advances.

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Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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The 1968 Fair Housing Act legislatively barred restrictive covenants in housing. In this photo, President Lyndon B. Johnson presents a souvenir pen to Mr. and Mrs. Lupe Arzola after signing the act Aug. 1, 1968, in Washington. The couple were residents of the oldest federally subsidized public housing project in Austin, Texas.

Minnesota Lawyer

In the Hopper: Restrictive covenants, bar mix, data breaches.

Text Media
History of Racial Covenants
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Minnesota Spokesman Recorder

Film links Minneapolis’ Jim Crow past to present-day disparities.

Text Media
Community Activism
Contemporary Legacies of Covenants
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Dan Bergin standing in front of a graffiti wall in a black leather jacket and turtleneck

Star Tribune

Like our own Ken Burns, TPT filmmaker mines Minnesota history.

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Community Activism
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