Redlining & housing discrimination
Prairie Village, restricted by covenant
Developed from 1941; racial covenants filed in Johnson County as late as 1962Prairie Village and the Nichols subdivisions of north-east Johnson County, KS
J. C. Nichols built Prairie Village from 1941 under a declaration of restrictions barring sale or occupancy to anyone not white, enforced by a compulsory homes association and renewing itself automatically. In 1960 the city had 25,356 residents. Twenty-five were Black.
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.