Do you know the neighborhood around YHS? Here's when "Washtenaw Club View" subdivision lots were originally offered for sale in the paper: the beginning of May, 1924.The property lies between what is now the YHS campus and the Polo Fields Country Club.
What struck Dusty D was what I take to be coded language. The terms "all-American" and "highest restricted subdivision" lead me to believe that this sub was available only to white citizens.
According to black oral histories in the Archives, the inter-war period was a particularly bad one for prejudice against black residents. Perhaps this advertisement is one relic of that grim period. What do you think?
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