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 July 09, 2025.
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140 f 7 President Hon. Francis E. Rivers ¢ 1m eval Lameneel gall Director-Counsel Greenberg 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. | -30- Released to AP, UPI, AMSTERDAM NEWS