%0 Book %I Albemarle County Office of Equity and Inclusion %D 2021 %C Charlottesville, Va, %G English %T Community Read : a book club for the entire community %X "This reader focuses on the continuing collective legacies of racially restrictive covenants on our Albemarle-Charlottesville community ... Racial covenants are a type of restrictive covenant--a binding legal obligation between buyer and seller that can be written into the deed of a property contract by the seller ... Use of racial covenants became widespread throughout the country beginning in the 1920s, barring properties from being sold to people of specific races or ethnicities, most often targeting Black Americans ... In 1948 the Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kramer that covenants were unenforceable, and Virginia's Fair Housing Law now prohibits such covenants."--Introduction.