Abstract
I think sometimes you need to wonder where we were in 1968. It wasn’t just the Fair Housing Act that was passed in 1968. What happened in 1968? George Wallace was running for president. Hubert Humphrey was running for president, and Richard Nixon as well. It wasn’t just the assassination of Dr. King, we also had the assassination of Robert Kennedy. We likewise had the Vietnam War, and America was a mess. We had something else occurring in 1968. That was the Kerner Commission Report, that Dr. Crutcher mentioned had been instrumental in the fair housing bill. And they made recommendations. I happened to have been a part of that last month in Minnesota, and had great occasion to talk with Fred Harris, who was the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, Senator from Oklahoma. And also, Walter Mondale and I had a long time to talk.
Recommended Citation
Douglas Wilder,
Fifty Years of Fair Housing: Learning From The Past, Looking to the Future,
53
U. Rich. L. Rev.
1013
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol53/iss3/9
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