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property owners in an area. Your Committee should realize that these agreements are legally unenforceable and should work to have them rescinded or broken.[14]
In some instances, Human Relations Committees (of course, the names given these groups vary widely) have expanded their activities to cover an even broader range of service. Some provide a source of legal counsel to non-whites who are refused their rights in any way relative to housing. Others, in communities where local realtors have proved to be uncooperative, have set up their own available-housing lists and have actively engaged in bringing Negro buyers and white sellers together.
Some Human Relations groups have also engaged in active pledge-signing campaigns designed to get as many people in a community as possible to sign their names to Open Housing Covenants. Sometimes these activities are supported by newspaper ads listing the names of people who have signed to indicate the breadth of support for open housing.
SUGGESTED COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
In organizing a planned program to aid in sensible and orderly racial integration in your area, the following are some of the steps that should be considered:
1. Organization of area-wide Open Housing or Human Relations Committee to coordinate activities, work with churches, community organizations and the community at large; collect, prepare and distribute literature; hold community meetings; work to obtain Open Housing Pledges from area residents; publicize activities. The Committee should make its existence and purpose known to city officials and their coopera-
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property owners in an area. Your Committee should realize that these agreements are legally unenforceable and should work to have them rescinded or broken.[14] In some instances, Human Relations Committees (of course, the names given these groups vary widely) have expanded their activities to cover an even broader range of service. Some provide a source of legal counsel to non-whites who are refused their rights in any way relative to housing. Others, in communities where local realtors have proved to be uncooperative, have set up their own available-housing lists and have actively engaged in bringing Negro buyers and white sellers together. Some Human Relations groups have also engaged in active pledge-signing campaigns designed to get as many people in a community as possible to sign their names to Open Housing Covenants. Sometimes these activities are supported by newspaper ads listing the names of people who have signed to indicate the breadth of support for open housing. SUGGESTED COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES In organizing a planned program to aid in sensible and orderly racial integration in your area, the following are some of the steps that should be considered: 1. Organization of area-wide Open Housing or Human Relations Committee to coordinate activities, work with churches, community organizations and the community at large; collect, prepare and distribute literature; hold community meetings; work to obtain Open Housing Pledges from area residents; publicize activities. The Committee should make its existence and purpose known to city officials and their coopera- 25