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Learn about a project that began in 2014 to document the former extent of racially restricted housing in DC, along with other historic mechanisms of segregation and racialized displacement. Covenants laid the basis for demographic patterns reinforced by exclusionary zoning, redlining, and unequal investment. They helped make residential segregation the norm. Audience members were invited to sign up to help map covenants in Southeast and Northwest DC, including Ward 3. Led by Historian Sarah Jane Shoenfeld, co-founder of the public history project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC and a member of Undesign the Redline DC’s Community Advisory Group.