Harrison West

That was also deemed hazardous because, quote, foreigners are living in that area, end quote.

And other communities like Harrison West were deemed hazardous simply because it had a large Italian American community located in it.

In fact, a woman by the name of Patricia Burgess, who wrote the book, Planning and the Private Interest, published by the Ohio State University Press, looked at the fact between 1900 and 1970, racial restrictive covenants were true in about 68% of all of the subdivisions built in the first half of the 1900s.

That happened in Columbus, Worthington, Bexley, Whitehall, Grandview, Arlington.