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 #segregation #jimcrow https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/community/posts/12976853073940-upzoning-to-raise-property-taxes-but-development-stymied-by-covenants
1926: "The question of race segregation in cities was argued before the Supreme Court today in a case involving the enforceability of contracts made among property owners to restrict the sale and use of their property." -NYT, 1/9/26 #segregation #supremecourt #histodons #washingtondc #racialcovenants #civilrights https://www.nytimes.com/1926/01/09/archives/pleads-for-negroes-in-supreme-court-louis-marshall-argues-in-the.html?smid=url-share
PLEADS FOR NEGROES IN SUPREME COURT.; Louis Marshall Argues in the Capital City Appeal That They Cannot Be Segregated. TEST FOR 10 OTHER CITIES Attempt to Stop a Negro From Buying Home on a Fashionable Street Is Opposed.

Sketch of site of 7 houses

The New York Times
My holiday Friday news dump is that we've added several thousand mapped racial covenants to our still-in-progress Milwaukee County data set. https://github.com/UMNLibraries/mp-us-racial-covenants #racialcovenants #MappingPrejudice #milwaukee
GitHub - UMNLibraries/mp-us-racial-covenants: Mapped racial covenants, produced by Mapping Prejudice volunteers and Mapping Prejudice and collaborators nationwide.

Mapped racial covenants, produced by Mapping Prejudice volunteers and Mapping Prejudice and collaborators nationwide. - UMNLibraries/mp-us-racial-covenants

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Want to learn more about the #MappingPrejudice Deed Machine, our software platform for finding and mapping racial covenants? I'm doing an overview of the technical platform at 11 Central today for MAGIRT and the Western Association of Map Libraries. #racialcovenants https://okstate-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oceCqrTspGtyUD4_ywZVo3gYzookzyEoT#/registration
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: MAGIRT Webinar Series: The Mapping Prejudice "Deed Machine". After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Mapping Prejudice technical lead Michael Corey will demonstrate how a new, cloud-hosted web application has the potential to supercharge the process of mapping racial covenants, clauses that were inserted in the property record to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying certain pieces of land. Mapping Prejudice broke a long-standing research logjam when it devised a new technological platform for creating comprehensive geospatial datasets of racial covenants. In Minneapolis–where the project began at the University of Minnesota Libraries–one common restriction stipulated that the "premises shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian or African blood or descent." There are millions of these racist restrictions on properties across the country. But they have been extremely difficult to document since they are buried in millions of pages of documents held by county recorders around the country, and difficult to map because historic property records are not connected to modern systems. Since 2016, the project team has been working steadily to refine its methodology, which involves Optical Character Recognition, Python scripts, crowdsourcing through Zooniverse, and automated strategies for connecting racial restrictions on historic property parcels to the modern street grid. But over the last year, the team achieved a major breakthrough when it bound these tools together in what we now call the “Deed Machine,” a cloud-hosted web application that knits together these disparate technical workflows and leverages the power of parallel computing. Corey will share the insights from this iterative process of technical experimentation. He will also explain the exciting possibilities opened up by the Deed Machine, which has the potential to help researchers across the country locate racial restrictions quickly and accurately.

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80-year-old segregation wall finally comes down in Baltimore

For more than 80 years, Morgan State University students walking down Hillen Road near the school’s entrance saw a massive red brick wall.

NBC News
Anyone here going to #NCPH in Atlanta this week? I'd love to meet some new public history/digital humanities/digitizing records at scale people. #publichistory #ocr #racialcovenants #MappingPrejudice
Texas bill aims to remove racist language from property deeds

Housing advocates say they appreciate the measure, but want to see more legislative action to overcome racial inequalities in the housing market.

The Texas Tribune
WaPo$ Was your home once off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you. Urban planners & historians are mapping racial covenants to analyze the legacy of segregated neighborhoods across the United States..The restrictions which remain written into property deeds, prohibited homes from being sold or rented to people of “negro blood or extraction” or anyone not “of the Caucasian race.” Some also prohibited Jews, as well as Asians, Armenians, Syrians https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/12/17/racial-covenants-mapping/ #RacialCovenants
Was your home once off-limits to non-Whites? These maps can tell you.

The legacy of segregated neighborhoods nationwide is being analyzed by urban planners and historians who are mapping racial covenants.

The Washington Post

#TEDEd
#racism #housing
What you might not know about the suburbs - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

Discover the #darkhistory of the #Americansuburbs, and how practices like #racialcovenants restricted access to home ownership for people of color.--Beginnin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngelr9h2jM

What you might not know about the suburbs - Kevin Ehrman-Solberg and Kirsten Delegard

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