the restrictive covenants. After an African American Howard University professor moved into a prestigious Park Road home in 1950, some white residents began to leave the neighborhood. Whites fled to the suburbs as blacks moved in. This form of suburbanization, often referred to as White flight, increased after the 1968 riots. By 1970, the neighborhood was 65% black. Beginning in the 1960s and increasing through the 1980s, immigrants from Central America, particularly from Intipucá, El Salvador, settled in the neighborhood. The new residents developed businesses catering to Hispanic and Latino Americans along commercial portions of Mount Pleasant Street. The neighborhood also attracted former Peace Corps workers, who liked the diversity. Businesses included a grocery store and pharmacy, restaurants, low-priced retail stores and services. In 1973, the Community of Christ, a lay-led Lutheran group dedicated to social justice, bought a large building on Mount Pleasant Street and made it available rent-free to peace activists, pro-immigrant groups and musicians. In the 1980s, the group house scene flourished. However, in the late 1970s and the 1980s and until the early 1990s, the neighborhood suffered from the crack cocaine epidemic and the illegal drug trade was rampant. There were several strip clubs along Mount Pleasant Street. Muggings and robberies were common. In 1987, the neighborhood was designated as a historic district. The neighborhood was majority-minority in 1990, with African Americans making up 36% of the population, Latinos 26%, and whites 35%. In May 1991, a black female police officer shot a Latino man, leading to the Washington, D.C. riot of 1991. Two days of fighting erupted between the Salvadoran Latinos and blacks in the neighborhood, accompanied by looting, arson and attacks on the police. There was significant damage to police cars and buses, twelve people were injured but no one was killed. In response, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, under Chief Isaac Fulwood, and city government began an outreach effort to the Latino population. Per the 2010 United States census, the ZIP Code 20010, which includes Mount Pleasant, was one of the "most whitened" areas of the country, with the percentage of non-Hispanic white residents increasing from 22% in 2000 to 46.7% in 2010. As of 2021, housing prices had risen significantly. The neighborhood, which has long attracted immigrants, activists, punk rockers, entrepreneurs, revolutionaries and returning Peace Corps volunteers continues to retain its independent personality, a community set apart physically