Fair Housing Act of 1968

CTL-E-1181 · Policy · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the first federal law prohibiting discrimination in housing sale, rental, and financing.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:fair-housing-act; source research type(s): policy. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

The Chicago Reporter — 'The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending'; Face2Face Africa
The Chicago Reporter — 'The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending'

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