Paper Ordered to End Rental Ads Specifying Race, Sex, Religion
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department obtained a court order on Friday requiring the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger to stop publishing rental housing ads that state racial, religious or sexual preferences or limitations.
Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds, head of the department’s civil rights division, said a consent decree was filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, resolving a civil suit filed by the government.
The rental ads in question contained such wording as “white male,” “room to rent to female,” “white refined middle-aged Christian lady,” “ladies preferred,” “black mature person,” “black male,” “white house,” “Christian home,” “female only,” “settled man preferred” and “gentleman.”
The government’s suit charged Mississippi Publishers Corp., publisher of the daily newspaper, with violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
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