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These Minnesotans renounced the racial covenants for their homes Erica Pearson, Star Tribune
House by house, block by block, Minnesotans are digging into the history of their homes and reckoning with what they find.
Starting in 1910, housing discrimination spread throughout the Twin Cities and beyond, enforced by racial covenants in property records.
Developers often used covenants to bar anyone who wasn t white from owning or residing in the homes and neighborhoods they built. In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court found these covenants, which also often discriminated against non-Christians, unenforceable. In 1962, they became illegal in Minnesota.
Still, the practice impacted generations of Minnesotans by carving out Caucasians only enclaves, shaping a segregated metro area and leading to persistent racial disparities in homeownership.
Golden Valley city staff project turns into growing effort to denounce racial covenants Reminder of bans on people of color still in documents throughout Twin Cities. March 13, 2021 6:15pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A push by some Golden Valley city staff members to strike racist language from property deeds is spreading across the Twin Cities metro as residents reckon with the history of banning people of color from buying homes in white neighborhoods.
The Just Deeds Project pairs homeowners with pro bono attorneys to discharge racial covenants, the language embedded in deeds beginning in 1910 that segregated neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities metro. Though unenforceable after a landmark 1948 Supreme Court ruling, the language of racial covenants remains in thousands of deeds.