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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman Exposes How Trump Denied Her Housing Because She Was Black
Consider the case of Maxine Brown, who was attempting to rent an apartment at the Trump-owned Wilshire Estates in Queens.Stanley Leibowitz, the rental agent, talked to his boss, Fred C. Trump.
I asked him what to do and he says, Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there, Mr. Leibowitz, now 88, recalled in an interview.
Brown and her friend Mae Wiggins filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, protesting the Trump practices. At this point, Donald Trump was working as part of the Trump Management company, touring construction sites in his fathers Cadillac, driven by a black chauffeur as the New York Times reports.
After the complaint, all of a sudden Brown was offered an apartment in the complex.
Yet, the prejudice at Trump continued. State investigators in 1967 found that of the 3,700 apartments in Trump Village, only 7 were occupied by black families
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Woman Exposes How Trump Denied Her Housing Because She Was Black (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2016
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)1. Applications were marked with a 'C' for "colored". . . . nt
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)3. i had heard about the 'C' designation
but I never could figure out what it stood for.
Colored indeed......