Sentences with phrase «racially restrictive covenants»
Review of Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms, by Richard Brooks and Carol Rose
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My question was inspired by this article about racially restrictive covenants.
Most law students remember Hansberry v. Lee, a famous case involving a malignantly innovative legal instrument called a racially restrictive covenant.
Restrictive covenants were popular for only a short time, but even now, homebuyers often find a notation of a racially restrictive covenant on their deeds, although the contracts were outlawed in 1948 in the Supreme Court case of Shelley v. Kramer.