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Stuyvesant Town and the colour bar
1947
East Side, Manhattan
David Shankbone · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Eighteen blocks cleared with city help for a private insurer that then refused Black tenants outright, saying so in court. The case failed but produced New York's 1951 law banning discrimination in publicly assisted housing, the first in the country.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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