[Handbill]: Apartment Hunting? If You Can't get the Place You Want and Can Afford.

Verlag: The Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York, New York, 1960

Beschreibung

Handbill. One octavo sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 3¾" x 8½". Just about fine. An interesting document, advertising The Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York's "free apartment hunting service"; both a person of color and a white person would look at the same apartment, and if the person of color person was turned down, C.C.R.M. offers to help "take the next step." (They note that this evidence-building helps them in their case.) The final page prints information about the C.C.R.M., which was founded in 1950 under a slightly different name, and at first focused on collecting information about discriminatory practices in restaurants. According to an organizational history on Tulane's Amistad Research Center website, the "Partnership Apartment Seekers' Experiment" advertised here began in 1960. (The C.C.R.M. was dissolved in 1966.) An interesting ephemeral item, promoting a new strategy in the struggle for fair housing practices in New York. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 580071

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Handbill]: Apartment Hunting? If You Can't ...

Verlag: The Committee on Civil Rights in Metropolitan New York, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1960

Einband: Unbound

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1. Auflage