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1. Title: Racial Covenants [Hennepin County, Minnesota] (1910-1955)

   • Polygon data ; Vector data
   • 2020
   • Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Minnesota)

   Contributors:

   • Ehrman-Solberg, Kevin
   • Petersen, Penny
   • Mills, Marguerite
   • Delegard, Kirsten
   • Mattke, Ryan

   Summary: This data was compiled by the Mapping Prejudice Project and shows the location of racial covenants recorded in Hennepin County between 1910 and 1955. Racial covenants were legal clauses embedded in property records that restricted ownership and occupancy of land parcels based on race. These covenants dramatically reshaped the demographic landscape of Hennepin County in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled racial covenants to be legally unenforceable in the Shelly v. Kraemer decision. Racial covenants continued to be inserted into property records, however, prompting the Minnesota state legislature to outlaw the recording of new racial covenants in 1953. The same legislative body made covenants illegal in 1962. The practice was formally ended nationally with the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.

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2. Title: Map of the country embracing the route of the expedition of 1823 commanded by Major S.H. Long

   • Not specified
   • 1825
   • Not owned by MIT (Owned by Michigan State University)

   Contributors:

   • Penny, R. (Engraver)
   • Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman)
   • 1784-1864
   • Whittaker, George Byrom
   • 1793-1847
   • Keating, William Hypolitus
   • 1799-1840

   Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of the Great Lakes and Rainy River regions and the valleys of the Minnesota River and Red River of the North, showing the route of the 1823 expedition of Stephen Harriman Long. Includes descriptive notes, and indicates the dates and locations where the expedition stopped. Indicates settlements, forts, and Native American tribal regions. The route of the expedition is shown in red. Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. From: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River : Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, U.S.T.E. : compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, & Colhoun by William H. Keating. London : G.B. Whittaker, 1825. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000

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