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Title: “A Strictly White Residential Section”: The Rise and Demise of Racially Restrictive

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: In February 1944 Clara Mays, an African American federal government employee, purchased a three-story rowhouse in the Bloomingdale neighborhood, just north of Florida Avenue, close to Howard University. 1 The South Carolina native and her large family had been forced to seek a new home when the place they had been renting was sold. In the interim, the Mays family broke up the household, put their furniture in storage, and rented rooms in different locations while they house-hunted. Mays finally settled on 2213 First Street NW, part of an elegant Bloomingdale row built in 1904. Warned that she would be taking a risk in buying the house because a racially restrictive covenant barred its sale to African Americans, Mays went ahead anyway because she lacked . . .

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/90007372?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

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Authors: Shoenfeld, Sarah Jane; Charkasky, Mara

Periodical (Full): Washington History

Issue: 1

Volume: 29

Pages: 24-41

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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