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Hardcover Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement Book

ISBN: 1469625458

ISBN13: 9781469625454

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...

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