History 21 The Podcast - 4.11 Mapping Prejudice

Before 1968, contractors and landowners deliberately wrote racial covenants and clauses into some property deeds to keep anyone "other than the caucasian race" from buying or occupying homes. Rebecca Gillette talks about the history of these racial covenants and their work at Mapping Prejudice to find and identify them among millions of pages of documents, including in Anoka County.

This is a portion of a program given at the ACHS Annual Meeting, May 19, 2024.

Host Rebecca Desens, ACHS Director, and Sara Given, ACHS Volunteer Coordinator.

Mapping Prejudice is an organization that identifies and maps racial covenants and clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. From their base in the University of Minnesota Libraries, their interdisciplinary team collaborates with community members to expose the history of structural racism and support he work of reparations.

Rebecca Gillette, the Mapping Prejudice community engagement lead and associate director, joined ACHS at our Annual Meeting on May 19, 2024. At the meeting Rebeccca detailed their work so far, and the racial covenants found in Anoka County thus far.