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Racial Covenants [Hennepin County, Minnesota] (1910-1955)

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Racial Covenants [Hennepin County, Minnesota] (1910-1955)
Description
This data was compiled by the Mapping Prejudice Project and shows the location of racial covenants recorded in Hennepin County between 1910 and 1955. Racial covenants were legal clauses embedded in property records that restricted ownership and occupancy of land parcels based on race. These covenants dramatically reshaped the demographic landscape of Hennepin County in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled racial covenants to be legally unenforceable in the Shelly v. Kraemer decision. Racial covenants continued to be inserted into property records, however, prompting the Minnesota state legislature to outlaw the recording of new racial covenants in 1953. The same legislative body made covenants illegal in 1962. The practice was formally ended nationally with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
Creator
Delegard, Kirsten, Ehrman-Solberg, Kevin, Mattke, Ryan, Mills, Marguerite, Petersen, Penny
Publisher
University of Minnesota Mapping Prejudice Project
Temporal Coverage
1910-1955
Date Issued
2020-12
Rights
Content distributed via the University of Minnesota's Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor.
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Access Rights
Public
Format
Shapefile
Language
English
Date Added
April 26, 2021

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  • Citation
    Delegard, Kirsten, Ehrman-Solberg, Kevin, Mattke, Ryan, Mills, Marguerite, Petersen, Penny (2020). Racial Covenants [Hennepin County, Minnesota] (1910-1955). University of Minnesota Mapping Prejudice Project. https://doi.org/10.13020/a88t-yb14 (dataset)
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