The Fair Housing Act After Fifty Years: Opening Remarks

Authors

Julián Castro, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Abstract

Fifty years ago, on this day in late March, the United States was about to go through one of the darkest stretches in modern American history. At the end of March 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection. Just a few days later, of course, on April 4th, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. A couple of months after that, on June 6th, Robert Kennedy died as he campaigned for President of the United States. Cities across our country were in a state of total unrest. It was, as many have described it, a year of tumult for our country; a year where we were questioning the future of this nation that we hold dear, a year of division.

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Civil Rights and Discrimination | Education Law | Housing Law | Law | Water Law

Recommended Citation

Julián Castro, The Fair Housing Act After Fifty Years: Opening Remarks, 40 Cardozo L. Rev. 1091 (2019).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol40/iss3/2