FreedomCon 2021 – Documenting Racially Restrictive Covenants in Washington DC: A Primer
OnlineMara Cherkasky first wrote about racially restrictive covenants in the mid-1990s and has been systematically documenting and mapping them in Washington, DC since 2014. Reviewing more than 100,000 property records and thus far finding racially restrictive covenants on more than 20,000 DC properties, Ms. Cherkasky will explain what racially restrictive covenants are, their formulation in…