http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002297312_covenants03m.html
Written into the neighborhood's bylaws by Boeing founder Bill Boeing, the 60-year-old restrictions prohibited the sale or lease of the homes to anyone who wasn't white. Blacks and Asians, the restrictions said, could occupy the homes only as domestic servants.
Though long since invalidated, the covenants still occasionally show up in documents when a home changes hands — to the surprise of some buyers and sellers.
Taylor, the UW history professor, believes a different kind of re-segregation is occurring in high-priced neighborhoods like Broadmoor — not driven by racist language, but based on the idea of exclusivity.
He concedes that in a free market, people buy what they can afford. "But what some social scientists point out is that the very price of a home is in some ways determined by the absence of diversity."