Donald Trump’s family business involved keeping black residents out of its buildings

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Donald Trump’s family business involved keeping black residents out of its buildings
BYRICH SCHAPIRO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, August 27, 2016, 10:57 PM
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Donald Trump and his father Fred's real estate business kept blacks from renting apartments in the early 1970s.
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according to a New York Times storypublished Saturday.

Trump employees were instructed to attach a letter “c” — for colored — to any rental applications submitted by black apartment seekers.


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After one perfectly qualified black woman dropped off an application, Fred Trump himself instructed an employee to ignore it.

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“I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” former rental agent Stanley Leibowitz told The Times. The racial discrimination allegations led to a Justice Department suit that ultimately forced the Trumps to change the way they advertised their apartments.
 
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