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Jackson Heights, Queens, New York – covenants employed to restrict occupancy to white, non-immigrant Protestants. [ 44 ] Washington Park Subdivision , Chicago, Illinois – restrictive covenants used to exclude African Americans.
At the time of purchase, they were unaware that a restrictive covenant had been in place on the property since 1911. The restrictive covenant prevented "people of the Negro or Mongolian Race" from occupying the property. Louis Kraemer, who lived ten blocks away, sued to prevent the Shelleys from gaining possession of the property.
Restrictive covenants were legal until a 1948 Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer made them unenforceable, ... 15% New York City; Effects
May 11—An advocate for mapping the history of racial covenants in property deeds says the work is as much about current policies and attitudes as it is about past prejudices. "The practice of ...
Restrictive covenants have a complex and sordid history. ... The case law surrounding exceptions is relatively new, he added, despite the law being in existence for over 50 years.
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Corrigan v. Buckley, 271 U.S. 323 (1926), was a US Supreme Court case in 1926 that ruled that the racially-restrictive covenant of multiple residents on S Street NW, between 18th Street and New Hampshire Avenue, in Washington, DC, was a legally-binding document that made the selling of a house to a black family a void contract. [1]
Apr. 9—Rochester's plan to identify and map historic property covenants that once banned non-caucasian and non-Christian residents from living in parts of the city is following in the footsteps ...