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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 08:19 AM Nov 2021

St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated

Kalila Jackson has a big goal written on her vision board: End racially restrictive covenants.

The senior attorney at the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council wants to make sure homeowners don’t get the same shock she did reading a covenant for the first time.

“To see ‘no Negros,’ or ‘no Jewish people allowed,’ that does a certain violence to one’s spirit,” said Jackson, who is Black. “I knew I had to do something about it.”

The legal documents were widely used in St. Louis in the early- to mid-1900s to keep Black families out of white neighborhoods. St. Louis Public Radio reported Thursday that there are roughly 30,000 properties in the city with restrictive covenants tied to their deeds that specifically bar selling or renting to Black people, among other racial, ethnic and religious groups.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/culture-history/2021-11-19/st-louis-homeowners-want-to-get-rid-of-racial-covenants-but-in-missouri-its-complicated

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St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated (Original Post) Sherman A1 Nov 2021 OP
Seattle remains deeply segregated due to historical cbabe Nov 2021 #1
The state legislature simply can't pass a law Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2021 #2

cbabe

(4,126 posts)
1. Seattle remains deeply segregated due to historical
Sat Nov 27, 2021, 01:27 PM
Nov 2021

racial and religious covenants.

As one friend said, ‘If they don’t want me in the neighborhood, I’ll take my money elsewhere.’

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
2. The state legislature simply can't pass a law
Wed Dec 1, 2021, 10:35 AM
Dec 2021

Declaring all such covenants to be nullified? Or don't they want to?

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