UWM researchers win grant to digitally map racially restrictive housing covenants

(January 19, 2024)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee News

Two UWM researchers have won a federal grant of nearly $150,000 to continue their research into restrictive racial covenants in Milwaukee County.

The grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help Anne Bonds, professor of geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor of English, to develop a digital platform to map and visualize racial covenants in early 20th-century Milwaukee.

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