Mapping Racial Covenants in Stearns County, MN

Authors

Jonathan D. Carlson, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

4-25-2024

Disciplines

Geographic Information Sciences | Public History

Advisor

Jean Lavigne

Abstract

Over the past year, CSB and SJU Honors students uncovered previously unknown racial covenants included in property deeds in Stearns county. Racial covenants prevent people of certain races from owning or occupying property, thus creating segregated neighborhoods. The Great River Covenants Project (https://greatrivercovenants.org/) was created to educate the public about this work. Using Geographic Information Systems, I created maps to show the location of the covenants and when they appeared in neighborhoods through the decades of 1920 to 1960.

Recommended Citation

Carlson, Jonathan D., "Mapping Racial Covenants in Stearns County, MN" (2024). Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-). 243.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/ur_cscday/243