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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  East of Rock Creek Park in northern Ward 4, off 16th St. in the very northern tip of the District, are neighborhoods with a similar housing stock .... This is a historically integrated part of the city [/quote]

Ok, but let's not whitewash some ugly history.   This east of the Park area off 16th Street was largely settled by successful Jewish families since restrictive deed covenants prevented them from buying among gentiles west of Rock Creek Park before WWII.   As many of those DC Jews joined the great American migration to the (Montgomery County) suburbs in the 1950s and 60s, prosperous Blacks moved in, and while they probably received a friendlier reception from the generally progressive Jews than they would have from the gentiles west of the Park, the 'tipping' demographic balance in that area then helped hasten the move of many of the remaining Jews to the suburbs.      [/quote]

Well, yes, but major synagogues decided to stay put on upper 16th St. and Jews were in the leadership of Neighbors, Inc. I'd bet Colonial Village and Shepherd Park have the largest concentration of observant Jewish families in the District.

And there aren't many other neighborhoods in DC that have been significantly Black-White integrated for 60+ years. Most of the rest of the breakdown of residential race barriers in the city is far more recent than that.[/quote]

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