Bygone Brookland: "Remembering enforced segregation of housing covenants"

See this post from Brookland resident and historian Robert Malesky. Click on the link to read the Bygone Brookland post.  

Note that parts of Bloomingdale had racially-restricted housing covenants similar to Brookland.

FYI.

         
From: HistoricWashington@yahoogroups.com
To: HistoricWashington@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:31:42 -0800
Subject: [HistoricWashington] Remembering enforced segregation of housing covenants

New Bygone Brookland post - the legacy of racially-restricted housing covenants. The enforced segregation of such laws helped shape the city and its neighborhoods.
                 
Robert Malesky

 

BLACK AND WHITE IN BROOKLAND: The Legacy of Housing Covenants