SugarHill
Los Angeles / California / USA /University of Georgia
1694
Sugar Hill’s thriving Black community managed to exist despite systemic efforts to prevent Black people from buying homes in much of Los Angeles.
Because Black people were willing to pay more since there was far less property available to them, many White people in the Sugar Hill community violated the covenants by selling to Black homeowners.
The West Adams Heights Improvement Association sued their Black neighbors for violating racially restrictive covenants in an attempt to have them evicted, even though white sellers violated the covenants.
