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Brought to you by housing discrimination and institutional bias against

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studio apartments All right which federal initiative outlawed housing discrimination

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on here The potential in medicare medicaid l'm in right

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All right what if someone told us that we had

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to be this tall or this old or this smart

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in order to rent a house Well unfortunately that was

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very much a reality for minorities in america until the

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federal government stepped up to the real estate plate was

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the federal initiative that outlawed housing discrimination called a medicare

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well huh Medicare which was part of lbj's great society

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program provides health insurance for elderly americans and be sure

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not confused medicare with medicaid another great society program that

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provides health insurance for low income families They didn't say

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anything about real estate in those bills so we can

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put a and be on bed Rest was housing discrimination

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Outlawed undersea temporary assistance to needy families Well in nineteen

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ninety six president clinton took on the task of reforming

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the welfare system and his efforts resulted in the temporary

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assistance to needy families program which offers monetary assistance toe

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Low income families with dependent children so it's not see

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what housing discrimination have been outlawed under d title nine

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Well title nine did outlaw discrimination but it was in

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the educational rome in sports not housing under title nine

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federally funded education programs could no longer discriminate based on

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gender which gave women a sporting chance in high school

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and college athletic fields So if d is planned for

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the wrong team that means the federal initiative that outlawed

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housing discrimination was e the civil rights act of nineteen

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sixty eight Well civil rights act of sixty eight was

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intended to stop a racial discrimination for individuals attempting to

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rent or purchase a home along with the voting rights

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act and the civil rights act of nineteen sixty five

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which prohibited racial discrimination by business in public facilities The

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nineteen sixty eight civil rights act was a major piece

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of president johnson civil rights agenda So is the correct

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answer After the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were passed

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following the civil war it took congress nearly one hundred

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years to catch up to the civil rights party culminating

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in the three acts we just mentioned better late than 00:02:21.535 --> [endTime] legislatively never right

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