The Christian Friends for Racial Equality (CFRE) Committee Against Discrimination appointed a cemetery committee to combat the problem of cemetery discrimination. The Campaign Against Racial Restrictive Covenant Plat map of Capitol Hill showing some of the blocks covered by the restrictive covenants filed by homeowners after 1927.Ī letter from the Capitol Hill Community Club petitioning Capitol Hill residents to donate the funds necessary to protect Capitol Hill’s racial restrictive covenants. Restrictive covenants were a source of big profits for powerful real estate interests.Ĭapitol Hill Racial Restrictive Covenant.Ģ7 property owners signed this 1927 petition to restrict property use on their block. Click above to see the 1930 promotional brochure for the south Lake Washington neighborhood. Lake Ridge was developed by the Goodwin Company and sold to the public as a “restricted” community. This Blue Ridge list of “protective restrictions” is included in the same pamphlet that described the Blue Ridge area as “a beautiful place to build and own your home.” Housing restriction was publically condoned and enforced.Ī Victory Heights plat map in the North Seattle area.ĭatabase of Seattle Restrictive CovenantsĬlick above to browse nearly 500restrictive covenants and see King County neighborhoods affected by restrictive covenantsĪ pamphlet cover advertizing the Blue Ridge “restricted” neighborhood as “a beautiful place to build and own your home.” Blue Ridge was one of several neighborhoods developed by Bill and Bertha Boeing. The questionnaire developed by the Sand Point Methodist Community Church, to reveal resident’s attitudes towards racial restrictive covenants.Ĭivic Unity Committee Memo summarizing the Ornstein family’s situation. In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 0 that agreements to bar racial minorities from residential areas are discriminatory and cannot be enforced by the courts.įact Sheet on Ornstein’s Residential Discrimination and Proposed Plan of action, January 30, 1953. MoreĪ New World Map Shows Seattle’s “Ghetto,” 1948.Ī JanuNew World column addresses the 1948 court struggles against racial restrictive covenants. Teachers: this can be an exciting class project. Each document takes no more than a few minutes to examine.
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Please volunteer to examine the text flagged by the computer and answer a series of questions. We use optical character recognition (OCR) to identify property records containing racial language, but computers can only do some of the work.
Volunteers are assisting by reading deeds and recording the restrictions. Help us complete the Racial Restrictive Covenant Project The Communist Party Newspaper, New World, published articles attacking racial restrictive covenants in 1948. This sign at the entrance of Innis Arden advertised to all entering the Shoreline subdivision that it was a “restricted community.”
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