TY - BOOK ID - 78075366 TI - Unjust deeds PY - 2015 SN - 1469625466 1469625474 9781469625478 9781469625461 9781469625454 1469625458 1469654814 9798890850362 9798890850355 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - Real covenants KW - Discrimination in housing KW - Covenants running with land KW - Restrictive covenants KW - Covenants (Law) KW - Encumbrances (Law) KW - Land titles KW - Landlord and tenant KW - Real property KW - Vendors and purchasers KW - Servitudes KW - Fair housing KW - Housing, Discrimination in KW - Open housing KW - Race discrimination in housing KW - Segregation in housing KW - Housing KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Cases. KW - Law and legislation KW - Registration and transfer KW - Kraemer, Louis KW - Shelley, J. D. KW - Trials, litigation, etc. KW - Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075366 AB - 'Unjust Deeds' explores the history of an often overlooked civil rights milestone: the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). In a group of cases from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., six African American families challenged the hardening boundaries of the nation's racial ghettos as they fought desperately to hold onto their homes. Aided by the NAACP and local civil rights attorneys, they attacked the legal legitimacy of racial restrictive covenants, one of the most pervasive instruments of residential segregation in the 1940s. Their campaign culminated in a unanimous Supreme Court victory that left the struggle for justice under the law forever transformed. 'Unjust Deeds' explores the origins and complex legacies of the covenant cases and reveals how the campaign against housing discrimination helped to reshape the post-war nation. ER -