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Trump Was Sued for Violating a Key Part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy
Donald Trump Was Sued for Violating a Key Part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy
Five years after King’s death, the Justice Department sued Trump for violating the Fair Housing Act.
ARI BERMAN APR. 4, 2018 12:25 PM
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/donald-trump-was-sued-for-violating-a-key-part-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-legacy/
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Martin Luther King attacks slum conditions at an apartment building in Chicago in 1966.Edward Kitch/AP
In a video message on Wednesday, Donald Trump praised Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his death. “I ask every American to join me in remembering this great American hero and to carry on his legacy of equality, justice, and freedom,” Trump said.
What Trump didn’t mention is that he was once sued for violating a key part of King’s legacy.
The Fair Housing Act of 1968—the last major piece of 1960s civil rights legislation, and one that King had vigorously pushed for—was passed a week after King’s assassination. Five years later, Trump and his father Fred were sued by Richard Nixon’s Justice Department for violating the law by refusing to rent to black tenants at Trump-owned apartment complexes in New York City. According to the New York Times, applications from black apartment-seekers were marked “C” for “colored” and rejected by Trump Management employees.
Trump Management eventually agreed to a consent decree and gave the New York Urban League a weekly list of its apartment vacancies. But in 1978, the government accused Trump of violating the agreement. “We believe that an underlying pattern of discrimination continues to exist in the Trump Management organization,” a Justice Department lawyer wrote to Trump’s attorney.
Five years after King’s death, the Justice Department sued Trump for violating the Fair Housing Act.
ARI BERMAN APR. 4, 2018 12:25 PM
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/donald-trump-was-sued-for-violating-a-key-part-of-martin-luther-king-jr-s-legacy/
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Martin Luther King attacks slum conditions at an apartment building in Chicago in 1966.Edward Kitch/AP
In a video message on Wednesday, Donald Trump praised Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his death. “I ask every American to join me in remembering this great American hero and to carry on his legacy of equality, justice, and freedom,” Trump said.
What Trump didn’t mention is that he was once sued for violating a key part of King’s legacy.
The Fair Housing Act of 1968—the last major piece of 1960s civil rights legislation, and one that King had vigorously pushed for—was passed a week after King’s assassination. Five years later, Trump and his father Fred were sued by Richard Nixon’s Justice Department for violating the law by refusing to rent to black tenants at Trump-owned apartment complexes in New York City. According to the New York Times, applications from black apartment-seekers were marked “C” for “colored” and rejected by Trump Management employees.
Trump Management eventually agreed to a consent decree and gave the New York Urban League a weekly list of its apartment vacancies. But in 1978, the government accused Trump of violating the agreement. “We believe that an underlying pattern of discrimination continues to exist in the Trump Management organization,” a Justice Department lawyer wrote to Trump’s attorney.
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