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In 1964, the California Real Estate Association sponsored an initiative, Proposition 14, which would amend the constitution of California. Reverend King stated that the repealing the Rumford Fair Housing Act would be a major set-back for California, for democracy, and for "what we are trying to do in the South." (News-Call Bulletin, May 29, 1964). Senate and to speak out against the attempt to repeal the Rumford Fair Housing Act in California, which was a law passed in 1963 to help end racial discrimination by property owners and landlords who refused to rent or sell their property to non-white customers.

Martin Luther King visited the Bay Area in May of 1964 for a rally to raise awareness and support of the passing of the civil rights bill in the U.S. MARTIN LUTHER KING, CIVIL RIGHTS BILL AND PROPOSITION 14 IN CALIFORNIA Action finally occurred at the state level, with the passage of the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Ordinances on fair housing were passed and repealed. Protests occurred in cities throughout California. The fight to enact fair housing laws was major struggle without an easy solution. "The widespread belief was that when minorities came into 'good' neighborhoods, property values went down." (At Berkeley in the Sixties: Education of an Activist, 1961-1965. by Jo Freeman, p. The evidence collected illustrated that white home owners, landlords and real estate agents enforced a practice of keeping minorities out of white neighborhoods. They concluded "discrimination in housing is widespread and general, in both rental and sale of property" in Housing Discrimination in Berkeley: A Report by a Citizen's Committee to the Community Welfare in July of 1962 (p. This Committee conducted interviews, controlled tests, telephone surveys, reviewed reports of the NAACP. This form of discrimination was deeply ingrained and pervasive.Ī Citizen's Committee to Study Discrimination in Housing was created in 1961. In the Bay Area, particularly in Berkeley, housing was segregated between white areas and minority areas.