Thesis

This is the thesis I wrote for my master’s in American Culture Studies from Washington University. It is a narrative of the Shelleys prior to their Supreme Court case. The Shelley's home was at stake in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case – Shelley vs. Kraemer – that outlawed race-restrictive real estate covenants in 1948. My thesis attempts to revive their place in civil rights and housing history after generations of erasure.