On October 21, 1921, a standing room only meeting was held at Glendale City Hall to discuss a situation deemed a neighborhood threat: an African American man trying to rent an affordable home from his employer.  

Albert G. Spohr, a local business owner, had purchased a plot of land on which he intended to build a house for his employee—an unnamed Black man—and his wife. The community argued that if the man moved onto the street it would decrease property values in the entire neighborhood and ruin the “fair name of Glendale.”