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Important Legal Milestones <br />1940s: NAACP launched a sustained legal campaign against covenants. <br />1948: U.S. Supreme Court to rules covenants are unenforceable in the <br />landmark case Shelley v. Kramer. <br />1953: Minnesota Legislature prohibited the use of racial restrictions in real <br />estate documents. <br />1968: Federal Fair Housing Act made racially restrictive covenants explicitly <br />illegal. <br />2019: Minnesota Legislature passed law allowing property owners to reject <br />racially restrictive covenants (Minn. Stat. §507.18).