Mapping Prejudice

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Mapping Prejudice
Founded2016;7 years ago (2016)
Focusidentifies and maps racial covenants
Location
Key people
  • Kirsten Delegard (Director); Penny Petersen (Property Records); Kevin Ehrman-Solberg (Co-Founder) [1]
Volunteers
7,900 [2]
Website mappingprejudice.umn.edu

Mapping Prejudice is based at the John R. Borchert Map Library of the University of Minnesota Libraries. [3] The project searches property records in Hennepin County, identifies racial covenants that were made in order to stop non-Whites from purchasing certain properties, and plots the results of them on digital maps. [2] Their focus began with Minneapolis and it grew to include Ramsey County, Minnesota and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 2016, Mapping Prejudice was inspired by work at universities [4] in Seattle [5] and Virginia. [6]

Notes

  1. Uren, Adam (June 15, 2021). "Tributes after sudden death of University of Minnesota's Mapping Prejudice Project co-founder". Bring Me The News. Arena Group. Retrieved June 16, 2023.
  2. 1 2 "About Mapping Prejudice". University of Minnesota . Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  3. "Partners and Funders". University of Minnesota . Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  4. Delegard, Kirsten; Leebaw, Danya (May 11, 2022). "How a Minneapolis public history project is building political will to redress racial housing disparities". Brookings Institution . Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  5. "Racial Restrictive Covenants". Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project. University of Washington . Retrieved June 15, 2023.
  6. "About Mapping Inequality". Digital Scholarship Lab. University of Richmond . Retrieved June 15, 2023.

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