Suit Against Philadelphia Real Estate Companies for Racial Steering

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- Criminal Justice
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- Criminal Justice
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- Hursey Davis v. Warden, Joilet Correctional Institution at Stateville; Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois
Case
- Hursey Davis v. Warden, Joilet Correctional Institution at Stateville; Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois
U.S. state
- Illinois
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- Brief Collection
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- adea9e46-af9a-ee11-be37-00224827e97b

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Suit Against Philadelphia Real Estate Companies for Racial Steering, 1977. d2b3e24a-bb92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/0acaed27-d235-4a2b-9db9-a1637518f68f/suit-against-philadelphia-real-estate-companies-for-racial-steering. Accessed July 12, 2025.

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RMAN BLOOMFIELD: 

Qe? LOTT 

EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 
019 

Suit 



FROM: Norman Bloomfield 

The enclosed complaint was filed today (February 1) on 

behalf of black homeseekers and a fair housing group against six 

real estate companies operating in Eastern Delaware County, Pa. 

The plaintiffs are represented by NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund attorneys, as well as by Atkinson, Myers, 

Archie & Wallace, Legal Defense Fund cooperating attorneys in 

Philadelphia. 

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern 

District of Philadelphia, the complaint alleges that the 

companies engage in racial steering in 20 communities in the 

Philadelphia suburban area. The defendant companies are: 

Carr Realty, Bruce Hudson, Inc., Dubson-Hudson Realtor, Spano 

Real Estate Co., Wm. C. Taylor Real Estate-Insurance, and Arthur 

G. Wagner Real Estate. The Delaware County Board of Realtors 

also is joined in the action as a defendant. 

The suit seeks damages for the named plaintiffs and 

class members, injunctive relief to prevent future violations of 

the fair housing laws, and a requirement that the realtors take 

fects of their past unlawful affirmative action to overcome the ef 

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