11 April 1968
Legislation / redressSupplement
Fair Housing Act
United States; people facing housing discrimination
Federal law prohibited specified discrimination in housing. It challenged the legal and market practices that had excluded Black families and other protected groups from neighborhoods and homeownership.
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Context / qualification
Passage did not automatically dismantle segregation or close accumulated wealth gaps.