Racial Makeup and Covenants

ID: 3645 ~ Source: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
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Attorney Charles Houston made this map while fighting covenants on Adams Street. Brown = black-occupied houses without covenants; pink = black-occupied houses where covenants had been broken; green = white-occupied.

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By Prologue DC
African Americans began moving to the 100 block of Adams Street around 1925, despite covenants on some properties. At least nine houses on the block were the subject of lawsuits brought by white…