Mapping Segregation

ID: 3627
This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 1747 First Street

In Grady v. Garland, the residents of 80-82 S St were successful in maintaining the racial barrier that kept Bloomingdale’s unit blocks exclusively white.

This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 1747 First Street

By Prologue DC
In 1937 the six remaining white homeowners on this block, at 1737-1747 First Street, asked the court to nullify the covenant in their deeds and in those for 80-82 S Street, around the corner. The…