Levitt’s housing discrimination was legal until 1968
Evidence
Not until 1968, with the passage of the Fair Housing Act, did Levitt have to stop discriminating against would-be homebuyers on the basis of race. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 371
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece’s pattern of state-backed exclusion: like sumptuary law, housing discrimination was legal until federal action forced change — a cross-institution parallel of how law codifies prejudice.