Resources

Mapping Segregation 

Mapping Spatial Violence: dispossession, public housing, and "new communities"

(Prologue DC, YouTube, March 2021)

(Washington History, Fall 2020)

Open Data and Racial Segregation: Mapping the Historic Imprint of Racial Covenants and Redlining on American Cities (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

Mapping Segregation in D.C. (D.C. Policy Center, April 2019)

Race and Real Estate in Mid-Century D.C. (D.C. Policy Center, April 2019)

The Rise and Demise of Racially Restrictive Covenants in Bloomingdale

(D.C. Policy Center, April 2019)

How Segregation Shaped DC’s Northernmost Ward (Greater Greater Washington, 

September 2017)

Mapping Segregation in Washington DC (Preservation Leadership Forum Blog, June 2015)

For Sale to Colored: Racial Turnover on S Street, N.W. (Washington History, Winter 1996)

Black and White in Brookland: Mapping Segregation in the Neighborhood

(Bygone Brookland, February 2018)

Black and White in Brookland: This is What a Racial Housing Covenant Looks Like

(Bygone Brookland, January 2017)

DC Neighborhood History

Mapping Gentrification in Washington D.C. (Tanya-Maria Golash-Boza, October 2022)

The Demise of Ward 4’s Historic African American Communities 

(Prologue DC, YouTube, April 2021)

Brightwood’s Historic African American Community (Prologue DC, YouTube, April 2021)

What Lies Beneath: Documenting the History of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery

(American University, April 2021)

Barry Farm Dwellings: A Struggle for Civil Rights in Southeast DC

(DC Historic Preservation Office, February 2021)

Kingman Park, A Segregated Community and Civil Rights Center

(DC Historic Preservation Office, November 2020)

Remembering Reno City (DC History and Justice Collective, November 2020)

Black Homeowners of 3rd Street —1940 No covenants (InShaw Blog, February 2020)

A Centennial ‘Glocal’ History (Historic Chevy Chase, November 2019)

A Tour of Bloomingdale's Racial Divide (DC Historic Sites, 2018)

The Battle of Fort Reno (Washington City Paper, November 2017)

On the Fort: The Fort Reno Community of Washington, D.C., 1861-1951

Black Families Once Owned Part of Lafayette Park

Race and Real Estate in Mid-Century DC (Prologue DC, 2018)

Black and White in Brookland: O’Leary Column Prompts Telling Response from Sterling Brown
(Bygone Brookland, November 2014)


Black and White in Brookland: The Legacy of Racially Restrictive Covenants
(Bygone Brookland, December 2014)


Related Projects, Non-DC


Ann Arbor, Michigan: Justice InDeed 


Charlottesville/Albemarle County, Virginia: Mapping Albemarle–Mapping Cville 


Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Covenants


Connecticut: Does my Connecticut property deed contain a racist covenant?


Durham, North Carolina: Hacking into History 


Hampton Roads, Virginia: Living Together Living Apart


Hyattsville, Maryland: Mapping Racism

Iowa: Mapping Segregation in Iowa 


Louisville, Kentucky: Redlining Louisville


Minnesota: Mapping Prejudice


Montgomery County, Maryland: Mapping Segregation in Montgomery County


Northern Virginia: Documenting Exclusion & Resilience 


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Racially Restrictive Covenants in Philadelphia


St. Louis, Missouri: Dividing the City


Seattle, Washington: Segregated Seattle


Spokane/Eastern Washington State EWU Racial Covenants Project 


Takoma Park, Maryland: Takoma Park Covenants Project


Tucson, Arizona: Mapping Racist Covenants 



National Scope:


Mapping Inequality (on redlining)


Renewing Inequality (on urban renewal and displacement)


National Covenant Research Coalition