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Burlington Self-Survey on Human Relations: Final report, 1950
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82. Table 2. Continued Item, Number of Responding FIRMS 7. Number of firms encouraging restrictive covenants, 4 out of 8 respondees 8. Number of firms considering Restrictive covenants necessary, 4 out of 8 respondees 9. Number of firms reporting that groups exert pressure upon them to restrict Negro business, 2 out of 10 respondees The real estate firms giving these responses ranged in size, insofar as quality of business is concerned, from 10 to 2,000 clients. One agency was represented by this highest figure, another had 150 clients, while the remainder had less than 100 clients during the previous year of operation. The largest number of Negro clients served by any agency was ten, the next highest was give; the remaining three agencies had had only one Negro client each. There were only five of the agencies which had done Negro business, and only half of the firms expressed a willingness to accept such business. Since the majority of these firms did not consider that there were special limiting factors in dealing with the Negro market and did not report that any significant group or public pressure was being exerted upon them, the unwillingness to handle Negro business is largely their own predilection. The firms were about evenly divided in encouraging the use of race restrictive covenants on property handled by them; and this same division was expressed in their opinions as to whether the use of such instruments was necessary. In the absence of
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82. Table 2. Continued Item, Number of Responding FIRMS 7. Number of firms encouraging restrictive covenants, 4 out of 8 respondees 8. Number of firms considering Restrictive covenants necessary, 4 out of 8 respondees 9. Number of firms reporting that groups exert pressure upon them to restrict Negro business, 2 out of 10 respondees The real estate firms giving these responses ranged in size, insofar as quality of business is concerned, from 10 to 2,000 clients. One agency was represented by this highest figure, another had 150 clients, while the remainder had less than 100 clients during the previous year of operation. The largest number of Negro clients served by any agency was ten, the next highest was give; the remaining three agencies had had only one Negro client each. There were only five of the agencies which had done Negro business, and only half of the firms expressed a willingness to accept such business. Since the majority of these firms did not consider that there were special limiting factors in dealing with the Negro market and did not report that any significant group or public pressure was being exerted upon them, the unwillingness to handle Negro business is largely their own predilection. The firms were about evenly divided in encouraging the use of race restrictive covenants on property handled by them; and this same division was expressed in their opinions as to whether the use of such instruments was necessary. In the absence of
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