Greenberg Statement on Ranjel v. City of Lansing - Housing Discrimination in North
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November 15, 1968
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Press Releases, Volume 5. Greenberg Statement on Ranjel v. City of Lansing - Housing Discrimination in North, 1968. a1d77f22-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/493bbceb-7f61-4fd4-921b-92c37aecca2d/greenberg-statement-on-ranjel-v-city-of-lansing-housing-discrimination-in-north. Accessed November 23, 2025.
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Statement by Jack Greenberg, 11/15/68
This decision provides a practical opportunity for Negroes
and Mexican-Americans to find housing outside their ghettos. It
is the first ruling of its kind.
The Court's order strikes at sophisticated devices of housing
discrimination found across the country, particularly in northern
suburbs and city fringe areas.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. attorneys now
have a tool to fight such devices as zoning, which segregates
neighborhoods by income thereby limiting entry of Negroes, Puerto
Ricans, Mexican-Americans and other eae minorities.
This litigation is part of an LDF program to halt the more
sophisticated expressims of housing discrimination in the North.
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