White flight
The neighborhood changed after the 1948 decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of "Shelley v. Kraemer", which struck down the restrictive covenants. After an African American Howard University professor moved into a prestigious Park Road home in 1950, some white residents began to leave the neighborhood. Whites fled to the suburbs as blacks moved in. This form of suburbanization, often referred to as White flight, increased after the 1968 riots. By 1970, the neighborhood was 65% black.