Federal workers could be denied housing due to neighboring sundown ordinances

Evidence

In 1938 the Los Angeles city park commissioners “refused to allow the Civilian Conservation Corps to house a company of African American workers at Griffith Park because the bordering cities of Glendale and Burbank had ordinances which prohibited Black people from remaining after sun down.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 341

Categorization

• QUESTION: The CCC was a federal New Deal program — worth chasing how federal programs colluded with local exclusionary ordinances.