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Operation Equality was a Cleveland, Ohio, housing program established in 1967 by the National Urban League and designed to provide better housing for minority families. It encouraged the use of all legal and legislative tools related to housing, community planning, and development to achieve its goals.
Operation Equality (f. 1967) was a Cleveland, Ohio, housing program that was established by the National Urban League and designed to provide better housing for minority group families. Its goal was to help African American people and members of other minority groups live anywhere they could afford to live by encouraging the maximum use of all legal and legislative tools related to housing, community planning and development, and the provision of neighborhood stabilization. In 1968, the program helped 152 African American families find housing in the suburbs of Cleveland. Every client received counseling and where necessary, the services of a volunteer or staff escort.
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African Americans
African Americans
African Americans
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Discrimination in housing
Discrimination in housing
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