By Gideon Resnick
A 1973 suit against Trump and the Trump Organization claimed that
superintendents at Trump properties would mark African-American
applications with a ‘C’ for ‘Colored’ and other racial codes.
When an African-American showed up to rent an apartment owned by a
young real-estate scion named Donald Trump and his family, the building
superintendent did what he claimed he’d been told to do. He allegedly
attached a separate sheet of paper to the application, marked with the
letter “C.”
“C” for “Colored.”
According to the Department of Justice, that was the crude code that ensured the rental would be denied.
Details of this secret system, as well as other practices that the Trump
organization allegedly used to exclude black residents from its
buildings in Brooklyn, Queens, and Norfolk, Virginia in the 1970s, were
recorded in a lawsuit brought by the DOJ against Trump and his father,
Fred, in 1973 for alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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