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121 neighborhoods in Washtenaw County still have racially restrictive covenants. This one did something about it.

Like many neighborhoods of its time, an Ann Arbor subdivision in the late 1940s enforced a racially restrictive covenant that prohibited “any person other than the Caucasian race” from using or occupying a house except for “domestic servants.” Until recently, that 1947 covenant, while no longer enforced, was still on the books in the Hannah […]

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