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'Unrestricted Area' Meant E. Palo Alto - San Jose Mercury News

Themes:
Subjects:
Nairobi Shipping Center, Cheney Saint James, Archie Williams, William Bailey, Gertrude Wilks
Date of Creation or Publication:
2/12/1989
Creator
Stephen Robitaille
Donor
Estela Guerrero
Language
English
Copyright Statement:
Article about the tradition of redlining and blockbusting in East Palo Alto as the community shifted from a white and Asian agricultural area to a mostly Black town throughout the 1960s. Mentions early black neighbors being targeted by the Ku Klux Klan. Includes photographs of Gertrude Wilks, WIlliam Bailey, Archie Williams, Cheney Saint James, and the Nairobi Shipping Center.

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