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Dorothy Mulkey - US Fair Housing Campaigner

The Californian woman who ended segregation in the American housing market in 1967.

In 1967, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling which effectively outlawed discrimination in the American housing market. The case was brought by Dorothy Mulkey, a Californian woman who had been preventing from renting an apartment in a white area. She talks to Adam Smith for Witness.

PHOTO: Dorothy Mulkey at a Civil Rights exhibition in 2014 (Associated Press)

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