Restricted real-estate covenant
In communities across the country, property owners signed agreements called restrictive covenants. These contracts barred African Americans and sometimes other groups—including Jews, Asians, and Latinos—from many neighborhoods. In this covenant from Arlington County, Virginia, in the 1940s, the purchasers agreed never to sell their house to “persons of any race other than the white Caucasian Race.”
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