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Exclusion: Racial Covenants, Sycamore

There is evidence of racial covenants in Sycamore. The Fox Subdivision was created in 1927....

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Exclusion: Redlining and Racial Covenants, DeKalb

The second generation of Ellwoods included a racial covenant in the Ellfield Addition, which was...

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Fear: Ku Klux Klan, Sycamore from 2016-2022

Unfortunately, the fear connected to the Klan is not part of our distant past. While...

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Agnes Ma “The Ellfield Addition” (Work in Progress)

About the work: The year is 2021. In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter...

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FourPoets, OneMic “Multiple Titles (on video), 2021”

About the work: FourPoets, OneMic would like to thank the DeKalb County History Center for...