Events › Northside-Southside: Monthly Community Mapmaking

Join staff from Mapping Prejudice who will guide you through the step-by-step process of reading property records to identify and document racial covenants. Racial covenants were clauses inserted into property deeds to restrict people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. Deemed illegal through the enactment of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, these covenants are a classic manifestation of structural racism. Help us make and map history. 

About Mapping Prejudice: Based at the University of Minnesota Libraries, Mapping Prejudice collaborates with community members to expose the history of structural racism and support the work of reparations. Their work has always been community-powered, mobilizing more than 12,000 community members across the country to document racial covenants. Data from the Mapping Prejudice project has influenced policy changes and new laws, inspired museum exhibits and works of art, and been used for journalistic reports and educational curriculum.

Northside-Southside is a series of programs created to highlight lesser-known histories from opposite ends of Minneapolis. Attendees are encouraged to attend programs at both locations.

Note: The program alternates monthly between two locations: the 2nd Sunday of the month at Sumner Library and the 2nd Saturday of the month at Washburn Library.

Sumner Library: Sundays; September 14, November 9, January 11, March 8; 1-2 p.m.

Washburn Library: Saturdays; October 11, December 13, February 14, April 11; 1-2 p.m.