Alabama Trailer Park Lifts Rental Ban Against Negroes

Press Release
February 19, 1969

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  • Press Releases, Volume 6. Alabama Trailer Park Lifts Rental Ban Against Negroes, 1969. 43c9b94c-b992-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5bda1d85-dbd4-4721-8fce-a66e2c53203d/alabama-trailer-park-lifts-rental-ban-against-negroes. Accessed June 01, 2025.

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    President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

PRESS RELEASE Director Counsel 
d Jack Greenberg 

egal efense un Director, Public Relations 
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 3 
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-848" 

FOR PRESS RELEASE 

February 19, 1969 

ALABAMA TRAILER PARK LIFTS 

RENTAL BAN AGAINST NEGROES 

MOBILE, ALABAMA~-Managers of a trailer park here, charged with 

violating federal open housing laws, have agreed to open their 
facilities to Negroes. 

In response to a suit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) the managers of Village House Mobile 

Home Court said it would stop its practice of denying Negroes 

rental space for trailer homes. 

LDF attorneys sued the enterprise on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. 

Warren Dillon who, after seeking space for their trailer in the 

park, were told that Negroes were not accommodated. 

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NOTE: Though the LDF was once a part of the National Association 

for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) it now is a 
separate organization, even though the initials are retained 
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