St. Louis passed an ordinance that would prevent anyone from buying a home in a neighborhood more than 75% occupied by another race. First referendum in the nation to impose racial segregation on housing.

Supreme Court Decision that originated from Louisville, rules that the St. Louis Ordinance was illegeal. People instead turned to "restrictive covenants" which were add-ons to the contract of buying a home that stated the buyer of the home would never sell their home to a person of a different race.

Supreme Court Decision that originated from St. Louis that ruled restrictive covenants to be illegal, 30 years after their creation. After this banks resorted to redlining, a process of marking areas where African Americans lived as high risk areas and therefore deined them loans for mortages.

A major act that passed at the national level that made redlining illegeal and seeked to end all segregation that was being enforced by the law. However, this act came far to late and the impacts of legalized segregation had already become deeply rooted in St. Louis.