Meet the researchers who want to reverse covenants that once kept people of color from living in Whitefish Bay

Meet the researchers who want to reverse covenants that once kept people of color from living in Whitefish Bay

By La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“In 1993, Kathy Wurzer and her husband were looking for a fixer-upper – a house the couple could put their mark on.

 They found it in a quaint, tree-lined subdivision in Whitefish Bay. She and her husband, Ron, 65, moved in and years later adopted their daughter, Emma. Had they been house hunting six decades earlier, the Wurzers would have been barred from living in the north shore suburb.

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