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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Please see below (and attached) for an amazing opportunity to engage in research with the
<b>Racial Restrictive Covenants Project</b>. This opportunity is fully remote and open to anyone interested. If you are interested in public history, this project would especially be a good fit!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">RACIAL RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS PROJECT – VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:#FFFEFE">The language of segregation and exclusion haunts the cities and suburbs of Washington State. Racist restrictions, although now illegal, remain
in the deeds and other property records of hundreds of neighborhoods, a toxic residue from the decades when racial segregation was allowed, indeed promoted, by local governments throughout the state.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The Racial Restrictive Covenants Project is a public history project dedicated to identifying and mapping racial covenants in Washington state.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
This project was authorized in May of 2021 by the state legislature under SHB 1335.
<span style="background:#FFFEFE">To date the project has identified documents covering about 20,000 properties in King County and the work will be continuing in every county across the state!</span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">How do I volunteer?</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We need your help! We recently launched our Zooniverse page which allows people within our community to get involved in the research! On Zooniverse volunteers
will be reading property deeds with suspected restrictions, confirming and transcribing the racial covenants, and answering a few simple questions. The process only takes a couple of minutes and volunteers can look through as few or as many as they like!
Volunteers are a crucial part of this research and would not be possible without the help of members of our community. For every 15 documents that a volunteer examines this will count as one volunteer hour served. Time spent attending one of our weekly transcription
sessions can also be counted as one volunteer hour. If a student has trouble examining 15 documents in an hour they can reach out to us and we can work with them to come up with something more manageable. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please email me at
<b><span style="color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:jwoods34@uw.edu">jwoods34@uw.edu</a></span><span style="color:black"> or
</span></b><span style="color:#1155CC"><a href="mailto:wacovenants@gmail.com">wacovenants@gmail.com</a>
</span><span style="color:black">for more information.</span> You can also sign up for our newsletter and attend one of our weekly transcription sessions. This information can be found on our
<a href="https://depts.washington.edu/covenants/volunteer.shtml">website</a>. Additionally, please share this information with anyone who you think may be interested!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information, please visit </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://depts.washington.edu/covenants/about.shtml">Racial Restrictive Covenants Project Site</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://depts.washington.edu/covenants/">Racial Restrictive Covenants Project Home Page</a><span style="color:#1155CC"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="http://depts.washington.edu/covenants/volunteer.shtml">Racial Restrictive Covenants Newsletter and Volunteer</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you! Please let me know if you would like more information!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jazzlynn Woods</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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