Post by Logan on Dec 6, 2016 11:14:59 GMT -6
Whites-only covenants still exist in many mid-century Spokane neighborhoods
Say you live in one of Spokane’s mid-century neighborhoods.
Leafy streets. Families in their 60-year-old houses. The very picture of a quaint, wholesome American neighborhood.
But there might be something ugly hidden deep in the history of the home: A whites-only covenant.
“No race or nationality other than the white race shall use or occupy any building on any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race or nationality employed by an owner or tenant,” reads one such covenant for an addition in the Comstock neighborhood.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/dec/04/whites-only-covenants-still-exist-in-many-mid-cent/
Say you live in one of Spokane’s mid-century neighborhoods.
Leafy streets. Families in their 60-year-old houses. The very picture of a quaint, wholesome American neighborhood.
But there might be something ugly hidden deep in the history of the home: A whites-only covenant.
“No race or nationality other than the white race shall use or occupy any building on any lot, except that this covenant shall not prevent occupancy by domestic servants of a different race or nationality employed by an owner or tenant,” reads one such covenant for an addition in the Comstock neighborhood.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/dec/04/whites-only-covenants-still-exist-in-many-mid-cent/