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Stearns County approves MOU with University of Minnesota to map historic racial covenants
Summary
The county board authorized a memorandum of understanding allowing University of Minnesota libraries and Mapping Prejudice to process county property records to identify historic racial covenants; staff and presenters said homeowners will not be contacted and the county attorney reviewed the agreement.
The Stearns County Board of Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding with the University of Minnesota Libraries to allow Mapping Prejudice to analyze county property records for historic racial covenants and return the processed data to the county.
Britney Merritt Nash, an assistant professor of history at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, told the board that her students initially found 101 historic racial covenants in Stearns County using the county's ArcaSearch database but could not find all covenants because of optical character recognition limitations in that system. "We located a…
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