Housing: Hearings Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Issues 8-9

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959

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Page 150 - ... the elimination of substandard and other inadequate housing through the clearance of slums and blighted areas, and the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family...
Page 104 - States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Page 441 - ... (2) study and collect information concerning legal developments constituting a denial of equal protection of laws under the Constitution...
Page 62 - Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in any territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in restraint of trade or commerce between any such territory and another, or between any such territory or territories and any state or states or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations...
Page 173 - The chances are about 68 out of 100 that an estimate from the sample would differ from a complete census figure by less than the standard error.
Page 107 - ... decent, safe and sanitary dwellings. The housing, so far as practicable, shall be in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities, public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced and equal in number to the number of such displaced families or individuals and reasonably accessible to their places of employment.

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