21 T Street
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Afro-American editor Ralph Matthews and Selma Sampson Matthews defied a racial covenant to buy this house.
This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 37 T Street
Bloomingdale Tour: 37 T Street
John S. Melton blanketed the unit block of T Street with racial covenants when he built rowhouses here in the early 1900s, but middle-class black families filled the 100 block of T and other nearby…