Today the Jewish Journal recounts the history of Los Angeles's restrictive housing covenants, which kept blacks, Jews, Italians, Latinos, and in some cases everyone but white Christians out of many housing tracts (real estate agents were the primary enforcers). The US Supreme Court ruled the covenants unconstitutional in 1948, but the restrictions were outlawed in Los Angeles in 1947 after a black musician and World War I veteran named Frank Lloyd Drye sued his white neighbors for trying to force him out of his brand new "dream house" in Country Club Park. [Jewish Journal]
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