and class action legal studies. It is also considered an important study of African American, Chicago and legal history. While the purchase case proceeded, some landlords subdivided properties and rented them to blacks at a premium. Some realtors began encouraging white families to move out so that they could rent properties to African Americans. Smaller property owners were pressed to sell to realtors or directly to African Americans because the neighborhood was undergoing a racial transformation. The conditions of this neighborhood are described in a section of Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace Roscoe Cayton. The Supreme Court ruling and several similar rulings led to the racial transformation of the Woodlawn and Hyde Park community areas. Political futures were determined by positions taken on this issue. Future five-term Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley ran for Cook County Sheriff in 1946 as a progressive anti-covenant candidate. Eventually, in Shelley v. Kraemer, , which was argued by Thurgood Marshall, the U. S. Supreme Court declared restrictive covenants in general unenforceable. Notes External links Sample racial covenant Official City of Chicago Washington Park Neighborhood Map Official City of Chicago Woodlawn Neighborhood Map Neighborhoods in Chicago South Side, Chicago Anti-discrimination law in the United States