Greenberg Statement on Ranjel v. City of Lansing - Housing Discrimination in North

Press Release
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 October 08, 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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