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Showing posts with label deed. Show all posts

2.04.2009

not so long ago


This deed was written in 1922, and it was still the deed of record when the property was sold in 1982. If you read down to the bottom of the page (click to make it larger), you will see that one of the conditions of sale was that no person of "African descent" be permitted to buy, rent or even occupy the premises except as a servant. There is still plenty of prejudice in the United States. But at least we've come far enough to find this document shocking.