# @dulehill on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BtyoDQ7jZ63
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- **Posted:** 2019-02-12T18:00:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dule Hill (@dulehill) — https://gondola.cc/dulehill

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#BlackHistoryMonth #NatKingCole #HancockPark #LosAngeles #History #LightsOutGP #Repost natkingcolehope
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"From our 2017 ""Nat King Cole - In Black and White"" exhibit: COLE FAMILY MOVES TO HANCOCK PARK IN BEVERLY HILLS AND IS MET WITH RACIST THREATS AND ACTIONS

Cole and his family were breaking new ground as the first black people to live in the community. Their arrival sparked a storm of protest, beginning with a legal battle by the Hancock Park Property Owners Association to try to prevent him from buying the house. When that did not work, the association tried to buy the house from the star. Months of abuse also followed in which his family dog was poisoned to death and racial insults were burnt into his lawn.

A previously unpublished covenant for the property reveals the depth of hatred prevalent in the US at the time. The legal document makes it clear that the home was for whites only and not for ""any person whose blood is not entirely that of the Caucasian race"". The only exception for ""persons not of the Caucasian race"" was if they were there in ""the capacity of servants"". Fortunately for the Cole family, in the same year that they moved to Hancock Park, a US Supreme Court ruling banned racially restrictive property covenants.

When told ""they really just didn't want any undesirable people here“ - Nat replied “Well neither do I and if I see any I will let you know.”" #BlackHistoryMonth #NKCGH #NatKingCole #ColeFamilyLegacy #KeepingMusicAlive

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losangeles, repost, keepingmusicalive, blackhistorymonth, natkingcole, history, nkcgh, lightsoutgp, hancockpark, colefamilylegacy

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