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Join UW-Milwaukee professors Anne Bonds and Derek G. Handley for a presentation and discussion about racial covenants and Black resistance to them on November 8.
Join UW-Milwaukee professors Anne Bonds and Derek G. Handley for a presentation and discussion about racial covenants and Black resistance to them on November 8.
Racial covenants were a widely used tool to racially segregate housing and communities in the first half of the twentieth century. Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County is a crowdsourced, community-engaged mapping project documenting all racial covenants in Milwaukee County and Black resistance to them. For nearly three years, Bonds and Handley have been working together with thousands of community members to read and transcribe racial covenants in property records in order to map these covenants and understand their geography and impact in Milwaukee County’s racially segregated landscape. At this same time, they’ve researched how Black activists and their allies sought to challenge and resist racial covenants in their struggle for access to decent, affordable housing. The process of identifying racial covenants in Milwaukee County property records has been completed and the data has now been mapped. This presentation will be the first community viewing and discussion of the completed map and its implications.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Special Events | History & Genealogy | Cultural Heritage | Book Sales |