That was a racial covenant - a restrictive racial covenant case.
But some whites, refusing to be comforted, had drawn up a racial restrictive covenant among themselves.
The posting, a summary of a property case involving restrictive racial covenants, was traced to a white first-year student admitted at age 17.
The result was wholesale disregard for, and violation of, racial covenants, and a subsequent vigorous counter-attack.
He was chief counsel before the court in the decision that led to the outlawing of racial covenants.
Forces like segregation, racial covenants, redlining and "white flight" cannot be forgotten, because they are still shaping the physical and cultural dynamic of American suburbs.
Although most commonly associated with the United States, racial restrictive covenants have been used in other countries:
As they plotted those developments, Bill and Bertha added racial restrictive covenants to property deeds.
The original deed included a racial covenant that restricted homeowners from selling or leasing their houses to any groups other than "the Caucasian race."
In the lawsuit papers, the subdivision argued that deleting the racial covenant would jeopardize the other provisions from the original deed.