Geneva Valentine featured on the cover of The Progressive Consumer Magazine, October 1940

ID: 4212 ~ Source: The Progressive Consumer Magazine, Series 2, Box 6, MS2340, Geneva Valentine Papers, Special Collections Research Center, George Washington University Libraries, Washington, DC

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

Geneva Valentine featured on the cover of The Progressive Consumer Magazine, October 1940

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…