Different Types of Racist Covenants
There were at least three different types of racist covenants. The covenants covering the most homes were attached to the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of entire subdivisions by developers to subdivisions of anywhere from dozens to many hundreds of homes. There are many examples of these in Nevada, as they were thought to ensure White buyers’ property values. In many locales, especially Midwestern and Northern cities that received thousands of African American newcomers during the First Great Migration during and after World War I and the Second Great Migration during and after the second world war, there were also petition racist covenants circulated by neighbors attempting to prevent African Americans from moving beyond overcrowded Black neighborhoods. We have yet to find examples of petition covenants in Nevada. The third type of racist covenants were attached to the sale of individual properties. There are many of these in Nevada.