With President Biden, the Country Might Finally See the Promise of the 1968 Fair Housing Act
5 min readApr 14, 2021
Joe Biden picks up where Lyndon Johnson left off
In April 1968, in the wake of the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the explosion in the streets of segregated Black neighborhoods in cities across the country, Congress enacted the Fair Housing Act, the third major Civil Rights Act of the…