Mapping Prejudice in Anoka County

5:15 Socializing 

5:30 Program Starts

Anoka County Library and League of Women Voters Anoka, Blaine, Coon Rapids Area welcome Rebecca Gillette, Community Engagement Lead of Mapping Prejudice, for an updated presentation on the history of racial covenants and their impact.

Discriminatory covenants were once used to keep people of color from buying or occupying houses and land around Minnesota, including Anoka County. The result is a century of segregated communities, setting off intentionally-placed patterns that paint the landscape we live in today. Even after they were made illegal, for a long time there was no way for homeowners to separate themselves from the racist language in their property records. Minnesota law now allows property owners to renounce-- not erase-- the discriminatory language. 

Please join us at the Northtown Library to learn more and how to find racial covenants in Anoka County property records.