Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver with Pres. Lyndon Johnson, who has just signed a bill creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 9, 1965.

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Robert Weaver and the Fight for Fair Housing

Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Robert Weaver with Pres. Lyndon Johnson, who has just signed a bill creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 9, 1965.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Robert Weaver and the Fight for Fair Housing

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Robert Weaver and the Fight for Fair Housing

Economist and fair housing advocate Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) wrote these words in his seminal 1948 study, The Negro Ghetto. This book was the first to comprehensively address the racist housing policies that had segregated northern cities…