Mapping Prejudice is a project by a team of scholars and activists at the University of Minnesota. The project maps racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes.
The mapping page has an animation that show the growth of these covenants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area from 4 in 1910 to over 32,000 in 1963.
Or you can see all of them with their details. The green color does not stand out great again the gray background though.
There are also some static maps showing racial covenants in the area.
This one does a good job of showing how they cluster around the Minneapolis city boundaries.
This is an ongoing process and you can
volunteer to help find racial covenants in deeds and participate in
community mapping sessions.
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