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Civil rights and race relations materials, 1957-1964

What You Can Do About Racial Prejudice In Housing Page 6

WHY THIS BOOKLET?

This booklet has been prepared as a guide for those who work to fight prejudice - in communities which are experiencing (or expecting) the first arrival of Negro families as neighbors, as well as in those in which the eventuality of integration still appears remote. It is intended to help you inform, educate and prepare your community to accept Negroes without fear or incident, by exploring the issues of racial prejudice as they apply to housing.

In addition to discussing the ways in which you may help smooth the way to integrated housing in your community, these pages will also help you understand the underlying nature of the social malady you will be dealing with - prejudice.

Accordingly, we have divided this booklet into short sections devoted to:

1. The social and economic changes of recent years which have so sharply brought the question of racial prejudice and integrated housing to the force.

2. The history of racial prejudice, and the mental attitudes that lead to a prejudiced viewpoint.

3. Why integrated housing is considered the key to the eventual elimination of prejudice as a factor in our society.

4. The facts about the integration of Negroes into white areas which you must know in order to combat the misinformation that has gained such wide and unquestioned acceptance.

5. Some suggested practical procedures for dealing with opposition to open housing and with the panic reactions that too often greet the arrival of Negro families in a community.

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WHY THIS BOOKLET? This booklet has been prepared as a guide for those who work to fight prejudice - in communities which are experiencing (or expecting) the first arrival of Negro families as neighbors, as well as in those in which the eventuality of integration still appears remote. It is intended to help you inform, educate and prepare your community to accept Negroes without fear or incident, by exploring the issues of racial prejudice as they apply to housing. In addition to discussing the ways in which you may help smooth the way to integrated housing in your community, these pages will also help you understand the underlying nature of the social malady you will be dealing with - prejudice. Accordingly, we have divided this booklet into short sections devoted to: 1. The social and economic changes of recent years which have so sharply brought the question of racial prejudice and integrated housing to the force. 2. The history of racial prejudice, and the mental attitudes that lead to a prejudiced viewpoint. 3. Why integrated housing is considered the key to the eventual elimination of prejudice as a factor in our society. 4. The facts about the integration of Negroes into white areas which you must know in order to combat the misinformation that has gained such wide and unquestioned acceptance. 5. Some suggested practical procedures for dealing with opposition to open housing and with the panic reactions that too often greet the arrival of Negro families in a community. 6