April was Fair Housing Month, and local historians and city officials took the occasion to look back to the decade-long campaign of sit-ins, marches, and moral suasion that persuaded the City Council in 1968 to bar discrimination from property owners and realtors.
The problem was restrictive covenants inserted into local deeds typically stating that “No person or persons of Asiatic, African, or Negro blood, lineage, or extraction shall be permitted to occupy a portion of said property.” ...