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The Wake County Register of Deeds Office is seeking volunteers for a project to help find and archive racially restrictive covenants that prevented largely African Americans, as well as people of other ethnic and minority groups, from buying or living on certain land in Wake County.
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In the decades after Emancipation, many African Americans left the rural South amid the Great Migration. In the meantime, many white home owners across the United States were encouraged to add language to their deeds, making it illegal for Black people to ever live in their houses.
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A state House judiciary committee heard public comment Wednesday on a bill that would allow magistrates and registers of deeds to opt-out of performing…