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  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

Mapping Segregation in the Neighborhood

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on February 15, 2018October 15, 2022

Racially-restrictive housing covenants were a tool used to keep people of color out of certain neighborhoods. Brookland was one of them.

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  • BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND

This is What a Racial Housing Covenant Looks Like

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on January 4, 2017October 15, 2022

Racially-restrictive housing covenants were a vicious tool to keep neighborhoods white. A block of Kearny Street provides an example.

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