In 1921, a few blocks down S Street, Washington, from where Woodrow Wilson made his residence, John J. Buckley, Irene Hand Corrigan and a number of other property owners in that section made an agreement among themselves They mutually bound themselves not to allow their property to be used, occupied, purchased or leased by a person of Negro blood; nor were they to give their property to such a person. This engagement was to be effective for 21 years.
But in the following year, 1922, Mrs....
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