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North Shore home integration drive faces real estate gatekeepers
In Winnetka and surrounding North Shore towns the NSSP pushes an open housing market for Black buyers. Real estate executives admit bias and gatekeeping while volunteers called on homeowners to pledge to show homes to any buyer. Public sympathy for civil rights contrasts with reluctance to integrate neighborhoods.
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Chicago
UPI
Winnetka
North Shore
North Shore Summer Project
NSSP
William Moyer
American Friends Service Committee
Mississippi
Lake Michigan
Moyer
Louis Pfaff
Evanston-North Shore Board of Realtors
Deep South
KKK
Anties
Win
Inetka
North ‘Shore
Grace Fammann
Smith College