Librarian Rachel Brekhus will introduce a local project in progress collecting documentary evidence of racially rest rictive covenants and a racial-segregationist legal structure in Boone Cou nty introduced by developers\, encouraged by professional norms\, supporte d by local institutions and enforced by formal and informal means througho ut the first half of the twentieth century. Audience members are encourage d to reflect on their own interactions with real estate\, as children grow ing up in a neighborhood\, as tenants or home buyers\, or as professionals engaged in the work of connecting people with homes.
\nCo-sponsored by \;CoMo Preservation.
\nAbout the presenter: Rachel Brekhus is a librarian who has work ed at Marymount Manhattan College and the Leo Baeck Institute for German-J ewish History in New York City and at Elmer Ellis Library at the Universit y of Missouri. Her opinions do not represent any of her employers\, past o r present\, including the University of Missouri. She is neither a histori an nor a sociologist\, but she has been a librarian for both history and s ociology\, along with several other humanities and social science subjects \, over her years in the profession. Soon after moving to Columbia in 1999 \, she joined the League of Women Voters in order to learn more about loca l civic and political life. When Mizzou Libraries commemorated the 150th a nniversary of the Civil War\, she created and led a Civil War bus tour of Columbia with financial support from the Missouri Humanities Council\, bas ed on her conversations with MU historians\, online lurking in local histo ry forums\, attendance at state and county historical society presentation s and reading of primary and secondary sources on local history from that era.
\nFor the past ten years\, she has become interested in the his tory of housing-related decision structures in Columbia and Boone County\, where she has now lived longer than she has lived anywhere else. Historic ally\, how were people's housing choices pressured\, constrained\, steered or encouraged? What impact do housing decisions by governments\, develope rs\, banks\, real estate professionals and landlords have on homebuyers an d tenants and with what consequences for families and communities? How do everyday life decisions\, and the forces impinging upon them\, become the stuff of history?
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