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TIL Between 1935-44, William Boeing and his wife set aside land outside Seattle city limits for subdivision and placed covenants to enforce segregation, forbidding properties from being "sold, conveyed, rented, or leased in whole or in part to any person not of the White or Caucasian race."

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