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Black Jack incorporates to block an integrated housing project
Black Jack, Missouri
Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A church backed group planned Park View Heights, a federally subsidized townhouse development with a half Black board of directors, on land in what was then an unincorporated area. Residents incorporated Black Jack as a city in 1970 and promptly banned any new multifamily building. In 1974 the Eighth Circuit held that the zoning violated the Fair Housing Act, an early ruling that a law can be unlawful for what it does rather than what it says.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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