Auburn85 432 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/trump-massive-resistance-history-mlk/550544/#article-comments Quote On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In response, a week later President Lyndon B. Johnson scrambled to sign into law the Fair Housing Act, a final major civil-rights bill that had languished for years under the strain ofwhite backlash to the civil-rights movement. Five years later a New York developer and his son—then only a few years out of college—became two of the first targets of a massive Department of Justice probefor an alleged violation of that landmark act. After a protracted, bitter lawsuit, facing a mountain of allegations that the two had engaged in segregating units and denying applications of black and Puerto Rican applicants, in 1975 Trump Management settled with the federal government and accepted the terms of a consent decree prohibiting discrimination. So entered Donald Trump onto the American stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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