Geneva Valentine purchased this building at 2008 16th Street NW to start an integrated housing coop

ID: 4211 ~ Source: 2008 16th Street NW, 1949, Series 2, Box 12, MS2340 Geneva Valentine papers, Special Collections Research Center, George Washington

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods

Geneva Valentine purchased this building at 2008 16th Street NW to start an integrated housing coop

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Equitable Realty, Opening Neighborhoods

When entrepreneur and former law student Geneva Valentine (1901-1971) opened Equitable Realty Co. on U Street in the early 1930s, she immediately went to work on "breaking" all-white blocks in Park View, where racially restrictive covenants barred…