Title: Redlining in Seattle — Real Estate Gals
Headings: Redlining in Seattle
Redlining in Seattle
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Content: Meanwhile, white neighborhoods reinforced that racism by adding local-level discrimination of their own. In Capitol Hill, for instance, homeowners went door to door and convinced other white residents to sign a covenant not to sell or rent to people of “negro Blood.” By 1947, those covenants covered 183 blocks around the neighborhood. Using research conducted by the University of Washington, The Seattle Times complied a list of other such covenants found in various Seattle neighborhoods: Greenwood: “ No person or persons of Asiatic, African, or Negro blood, lineage or extraction.” South Lake City: “ No person of African, Japanese, Chinese, or of any other Mongolian descent.” Ballard/Sunset Hills: No “Hebrew or … any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic Race.”