[timm22]

Essentially, some white property owners were trying to prevent a black family from moving into their district. They sought court enforcement of a racially restrictive covenant (which covered the parcel the black family had purchased) with the goal of preventing the black family from both occupying the land and taking title to it.

Now that I've answered your question, what's your take on the house party scenario I described in my previous post?

[Mojave]

So a racist records a restriction on a parcel of land limiting ownership and occupancy of it in perpetuity to the White race. Years pass, he dies and goes to hell. The state should now use force to prevent nonwhites from living there for the rest of eternity? When the state partners with racism, it becomes an instrument of racism.

Another failure of libertarian reductionist thinking.