With the help of the government, land developers used racially restrictive covenants to create a legal segregation in the Northern United States. This video is a short history of the legalized segregation that made Minnesota one of the most segregated states in the U.S.

00:00 Why is Minneapolis the center of a national racial reckoning?
01:12 What are racially restrictive housing covenants?
02:04 The dividing line between Golden Valley and North Minneapolis
02:53 The national and local government's support of legalized segregation
04:07 Using the police to gatekeep White suburbs: the case of Oliver Lyle
06:28 The Fair Housing Act of 1968, but the discrimination remains in the deeds
08:00 Words matter: working to remove racial covenants in current deeds
09:25 Creating Just Deeds: removing racial covenants from legal documents
10:39 Beyond politics: the historical facts of racial covenants and removing them in Golden Valley

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