Reverend Peter B Barrow an early Spokanite, preacher, and land owner.

ID: 5734 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Joseph Franklin, "All Through the Night," 1989

This file appears in: Historical African American Neighborhoods in Spokane: In Spokane's earliest decades, neighborhoods were segregated by wealth, not by race.

Rev. Peter B Barrow was born into slavery in 1840 but moved to Spokane from Mississippi with his family in 1889. He found Calvary Baptist Church which claims to be the oldest Black church in Washington State.

This file appears in: Historical African American Neighborhoods in Spokane: In Spokane's earliest decades, neighborhoods were segregated by wealth, not by race.

Historical African American Neighborhoods in Spokane: In Spokane's earliest decades, neighborhoods were segregated by wealth, not by race.

By Elizabeth Hedt

Before 1920, Spokane neighborhoods had no formal policies segregating housing by race. Successful Black Spokanites erected fine residents all over town, many of which still stand today.