Maryland
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Suburb
- Metro Area
- DC
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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2000 | 6,183 | 42 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Chevy Chase is actually four towns, but they are
generally discussed as one town.
“We had African Americans look at our house, and the
uproar on our block was unbelievable,” says a former
resident who sold her house in the 1960s.
“Beginning in the 1920s, some deeds included
restrictive covenants prohibiting sale or lease to “any
person of negro blood” or ‘any person of the Semetic
[sic] race.'”
-“For Everyman, a New Lot in Life, Washington Post,
15 February 1999, brackets in original