Trenton and Mercer Counties County White Realtors Charged with Conspiracy (Telegram)

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June 22, 1965

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TRENTON AND MERCER COUNTY WHITE
REALTORS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY

‘s Legal Defense Fund Files in Federal Court (*)

TRENTON, N.J.---An unusual lawsuit using anti-trust laws to attack
residential segregation in Northern communities was filed in Federal
District Court here today by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,

Legal Defense Fund attorneys asked the court to stop the
alleged "unlawful combination and conspiracy in restraint of interstate
trade and commerce" by which the Trenton and Mercer County Board of
Realtor has over the years denied membership to Negroes and maintained

1-white neighborhoods,
The Legal Defense Fund complaint, brought on behalf of Mrs, Carolyn

D, Martin a BBinceton Negro real estate broker who charged the Board with

delineating white areas and. refs ipgoh TePea°dwEfiings NAGERESe thPERS
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and with campaigning for increased membership at the same time Negro
applicants were being turned down.

The attorneys pointed out that in addition to rejecting the Negroes,
the Board publicized their rejections as based on failure to qualify,
Bi held their applications for over a year without acting upon them at
all.

Although Mrs, Martin met all stated requirements for membership on
the Board, she has been turned down six times since 1954, —

Legal Defense Fund lawyers noted that the, exclusion of Negroes
from the Board deprived them of:

*Access to the multiple listing system, by which realtors - venjoy a
large market in all rmighborhoods;

| *protection by the Code of Ethics of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards (NAREB) which requires cooperation among brokers;

*use of the “Realtor” trademark, regarded by the public as more
i reliable than "Broker"; :

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Realtors Charged With Conspiracy

June 22, 1965

*receipt of NAREB publications--including indispensable bulletins,

journals, and analyses devoted to problems and trends in the real estate

business;

¥use of the extensive consulting and library facilities of the

NAREB, the New Jersey and Trenton boards.
According to Legal Defense Fund spokesmen, f avorable court

judgement of the application of anti-
combinations would bring a breakthrou
segregation North and South.

The Civil Rights attorneys argue

trust laws to real estate
gh in the fight to end residential

that the laws apply, since
persons moving to and from Mercer Cc
as do a large part of the building

ounty travel in interstate commerce,
supplies and materials used, the

mortgages which finance housing, an id the insurance which covers it,

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director
Public Information .
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED. FUND, INC
10 Columbus Circle, Suite 2030
NYC JUdson 6-8397 (212)

DOMESTIC SERVICE
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renton & Mercer County White
Realtors Charged With Conspiracy

June 22, 1965

* eet : } EDITOR'S NOTE: "The "NAACP Legal Defense Fund" is not the NAACP : t The two werw separated in 1939 and now function —
in close cooperation as two separate entities, \

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