"Shelley v. Kraemer" was a landmark Supreme Court case in 1948 that dealt with the issue of racially restrictive housing covenants. The case involved a Black family, the Shelleys, who purchased a home in St. Louis, Missouri that was subject to a racially restrictive covenant that prohibited the sale of the property to Black individuals.

Although the Shelleys were able to purchase the home, a neighboring white property owner, Louis Kraemer, sought to enforce the covenant and prevent the Shelleys from occupying the property. The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that state courts could not enforce racially restrictive covenants as they violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The decision in Shelley v. Kraemer was a significant victory for the civil rights movement as it helped to strike down one of the legal barriers to Black homeownership and racial integration. It was an important step towards dismantling the systemic racism in housing practices and paved the way for further legal challenges to segregation and discrimination.