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Free the Deeds Training Session

January 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

a family putting up a yard sign about racial covenant removal
Be a part of erasing racial covenants and writing a new future for your block, your neighborhood, and our city of Minneapolis, one deed at a time. Join a training session to learn about the work happening here in Greater Longfellow and how you can be involved!
Find out the history of your deed and then volunteer – engage your people, share our survey, table or door knock.
You can attend in-person or on Zoom. All sessions run from 6 to 7:30pm.

What is a racial covenant?
Racial covenants appeared on deeds to land across America to prevent Blacks and other people of color from living in all-White communities.

LEARN
We are inheritors of a history that wrote racism into the documents that were used to sell houses, one deed at a time.

ENGAGE
Learn the stories of families impacted by redlining and think about the ways your actions can make change, one deed at a time.

PARTICIPATE
Be a part of erasing racial covenants and writing a new future for your block, your neighborhood, and our city of Minneapolis, one deed at a time.

Learn more at freethedeeds.org

Details

Date:
January 18, 2023
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Website:
freethedeeds.org

Organizer

Free the Deeds
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Venue

LCC Office
3101 Minnehaha Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55406 United States
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Phone
4143158336