Seven national Jewish organizations and 81 local Jewish councils filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court last week, seeking to halt the “damaging social, psychological and economic effects on minorities – especially Negroes – of housing segregation.”
The various groups, all of which are affiliated with the National Community Relations Advisory Council, urged the court to prohibit housing discrimination by enforcing the fair housing section of the 1866 Civil Rights Act.
Edwin J. Lukas, legal counsel of the American Jewish Committee, and Samuel Rabinove, director of the American Jewish Committee’s legal division, prepared the brief for the organizations. The national organizations are: American Jewish Committee, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., National Council of Jewish Women, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, and United Synagogue of America.
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