Register of Deeds seeks help to catalog racially restrictive covenants (NC)

/ Owner - October 10, 2023

The Wake County Register of Deeds Office is putting out the call for volunteers to help dive into its archives and uncover historic insights into our community’s past. The historical evidence is hidden within the “restrictive covenants” of perhaps hundreds of properties and homeowner association clauses throughout the county. The new research effort called the Racially Restrictive Covenants Project aims to create a searchable and interactive map of historic racial restrictions inserted to prevent people who were a certain race from buying or living on land in Wake County.     Read the article……………………………….

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