LDF Charges Racial Discrimination Against Negro School Teacher in All White Tenement

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August 27, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF Charges Racial Discrimination Against Negro School Teacher in All White Tenement, 1968. 7d5dcade-b892-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/60a5ae0d-0fe3-4b11-a55c-07b4c4bf4f4f/ldf-charges-racial-discrimination-against-negro-school-teacher-in-all-white-tenement. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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Hon. Francis E. Rivers ¢ 

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Director-Counsel 
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NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND ED JUCATIONAL FUND, INC 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

\ Brooklyn schoolteacher, _who was asked to pay $3,120.00 

i a $125.00 an th apartment she has occupied for 

y represented in Kings County Civil Court on 

August 27, 1968 10:00 a.m. by the NAACP Legal Defense and 

Educational Fund, Ir (LDF) . 

Miss Joyce Pra on in her xr organi a tenants' assoc 

apartment house at 220 Berkley Place, Brooklyn. The overwhelming 

numbe tenants are white. Their leases have been renewed. j 

Miss s has not. 

A charge of racial discrimination was lodged against the 

Prather via the New York. Commission on Human 

Rights. The LDF attorneys will charge that the security asked 

is “racially discrim inator violation of agreement to 

renew the leas le before Comm i yeence and fraud 

practiced by the landlord on Mis t in an effort to force | 

her to move while purporting to comply with the promi to renew } 

her lease." 

cy 

"Such a prohibitive security was not imposed on other tenants 

in the building who were white," the LDF, through attorney Gabrielle 

Kirk, will assert. 
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