Geneva Valentine purchased this building at 2008 16th Street NW to start an integrated housing coop

ID: 4211 ~ Source: 2008 16th Street NW, 1949, Series 2, Box 12, MS2340 Geneva Valentine papers, Special Collections Research Center, George Washington

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods: 1011 U Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods: 1011 U Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods: 1011 U Street NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

"Believing…that everyone has a right to good and decent housing, a right of choice to live where one can afford to buy and desires to live—our firm dedicated itself to finding such homes….We knocked…