“Secret Covenants Keep Negro Citizens In Slums: Van Sweringen Interests Fathered Most Effective Racial Restrictions”

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“Secret Covenants Keep Negro Citizens In Slums: Van Sweringen Interests Fathered Most Effective Racial Restrictions”
In 1905, the Van Sweringen brothers began to buy land for their planned garden suburb. In 1911, the village of Shaker Heights incorporated, becoming a separate suburb from Cleveland Heights to the north with a population of 1,250. The city was intended as an exclusive suburb where strict racial covenants were in place to keep unwanted racial, ethnic and religious people out. | Date: April 26, 1947 | Source: Cleveland Call and Post
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April 26, 1947
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