Facts about the New Look In Public Housing
6/30/1971
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This pamphlet and cover sheet about Chicago's public housing were submitted as an exhibit. It is from the case Dorothy Gautreaux, Odell Jones, Doreatha R. Chrenchaw, Eva Rodgers, James Rodgers, and Robert M. Fairfax v. The Chicago Housing Authority, et al. (Case File 66C1459). This civil case was the first major public housing desegregation lawsuit. It charged that by concentrating more than 10,000 public housing units in isolated African American neighborhoods, the Chicago Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had violated both the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees all citizens equal protection of the laws, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlaws racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funding. Both the Chicago Housing Authority and HUD were found guilty of discriminatory housing practices.
This primary source comes from the Records of District Courts of the United States.
National Archives Identifier:
7433107Full Citation: Facts about the New Look In Public Housing ; 6/30/1971; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/facts-about-the-new-look-in-public-housing, May 14, 2024]