
How thousands of racial covenants helped shape segregation in St. Louis
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How Did You Find the Restricted Covenants in Minnesota?
Colin, you have talked about this on this show before, but this is so interesting. I want to just remind people, you were able to kind of hit the mother load in terms of understanding what had happened with these covenants. How were you able to get information that made this so much easier to get your head around than so many other places where they've struggled to do that? A well, carennis, actly right. It's a non starter to just start leafing through the deed books page by page, because we're talking of millions of pages over 50 year period. But this index identified in the record exactly where the restrictions existed and we just had to go
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