Restrictive
Covenants and the United States
Supreme Court
nShelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948)
nRestrictive Covenant in Missouri Case
nthe said property is hereby restricted to the use and occupancy for the term of Fifty (50) years from this date, so that it shall be a condition all the time and whether recited and referred to as [sic] not in subsequent conveyances and shall attach to the land as a condition precedent to the sale of the same, that hereafter no part
of said property or any portion thereof shall be, for said term of Fifty-years, occupied by any person not of the Caucasian race, it being
intended hereby to restrict the use of said property for said period of time against the occupancy as owners or tenants of any portion of said property for resident or other purpose by people of the Negro or Mongolian Race.