Join UW-Milwaukee professors Anne Bonds an d Derek G. Handley for a presentation and discussion about racial covenant s and Black resistance to them on November 8.
\nRacial covenants wer e 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< /em> \;is a crowdsourced\, community-engaged mapping project docum enting all racial covenants in Milwaukee County and Black resistance to th em. For nearly three years\, Bonds and Handley have been working together with thousands of community members to read and transcribe racial covenant s in property records in order to map these covenants and understand their geography and impact in Milwaukee County&rsquo\;s racially segregated lan dscape. At this same time\, they&rsquo\;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 identif ying racial covenants in Milwaukee County property records has been comple ted and the data has now been mapped. This presentation will be the first community viewing and discussion of the completed map and its implications . \; \;
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