Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)
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In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1469625458
ISBN13:9781469625454
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.6"
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