An attempt by Sen. John Bricker, of Ohio, to insert an anti-segregation clause in a bi-partisan housing bill approved by the Senate Banking and Currency Committee yesterday was defeated by a 9 to 2 vote. The clause would have prohibited racial segregation or discrimination in proposed public housing projects.
(A Fair Housing Practices Bill aimed at eliminating “racial ghettos” was introduced yesterday in the New York State Assembly by Assemblyman Harold A. Stevens. The bill, prepared with the cooperation of the American Jewish Congress, would make it unlawful to refuse to rent apartments or sell a residential property to any person on the grounds of race, religion on ancestry.)
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