Sometimes the law comes swift and unfairly as with the African American sex workers of downtown Spokane in the early 1900s.

"I began thinking of my mother who passed away in 1898 while I was yet a child. My thoughts naturally turned to my father who was left with the responsibility of rearing six children." - Sonora Dodd

The East Central is a primary example of the ways that raciallly restricted housing policies altered a neighborhood.