Racial Restrictive Covenants Project: Recent Project Updates
Hello Everyone,
The Racial Restrictive Covenants Project would like to thank you for subscribing to our newsletter and for volunteering your time on Zooniverse! Thus far we have had 690 volunteers on Zooniverse! Thank you all so much for contributing to this work. We couldn’t do it without you.
Here are some project updates:
Our Senior Research Associate, Jazzlynn Woods has chosen to pursue a fantastic work opportunity and will no longer be working with the project. Jazzlynn was an extremely valuable asset to the team. Her hard work and dedication will be greatly missed, but we wish her luck in all future endeavors. Jazzlynn was with the project for over a year and accomplished so many things for our team. Good luck and thank you for everything Jazzlynn!
Since August, the amazing staff at the King County Archives have allowed us to continue our search of the King County deed reels and we have been making strides as a team to continue uncovering racial restrictions in King County. The search is ongoing but being able to access these non-digitized files has been crucial to the research team. We are also in the process of creating a map of racial restrictions for Snohomish County.
Thanks to amazing volunteers, we have finished classifying documents for King County and Snohomish County on Zooniverse. We have added documents to Zooniverse for you to transcribe! Volunteers can now work in either Spokane County, Thurston County, or Whatcom County modules. Thurston County has some particularly interesting language in its racial restrictions so be sure to check it out.
As you work on Zooniverse, if you have any questions feel free to use the Talk Board on the Zooniverse website, or send us an email at wacovenants@gmail.com. We are available for questions and eager to help!
If you are able, please spread the word about this volunteer opportunity to anyone you think may be interested! We are always looking for more volunteers and have several counties uploaded to Zooniverse for volunteers to work through. We have also been reaching out to various community organizations and churches to see if they would be interested in learning more about our project and participating in our research through Zooniverse. If you know of a community organization that would be interested in something like this please let us know, we would be happy to connect with them!
Thank you again for taking the time to read this email and for supporting our project!
All the best,
Erin Miller (Research Associate, Racial Restrictive Covenants Project)
Learn More About the Project:
Racial Restrictive Covenants Project Website
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Racial Restrictive Covenant Zooniverse Page