"...the Trump organization’s business practices were beginning to come under scrutiny from civil rights groups that had received complaints from prospective African-American tenants. People like Maxine Brown. Mr. Leibowitz, the rental agent at the Wilshire, remembered Ms. Brown
repeatedly inquiring about the apartment. “Finally, she realized what it was all about,” he said.
But a friend, Mae Wiggins, who had also been denied an apartment at the Wilshire...encouraged Ms. Brown to file a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, as she was doing.
“We knew there was prejudice in renting,” Ms. Wiggins recalled. “It was rampant in New York. It made me feel really bad, and I wanted to do something to right the wrong.”
Mr. Leibowitz was called to testify at the commission’s hearing on Ms. Brown’s case.
Asked to estimate how many blacks lived in Mr. Trump’s various properties, he remembered replying: “To the best of my knowledge, none.”
After the hearing, Ms. Brown was offered an apartment in the Wilshire, and in the spring of 1964, she moved in. For 10 years, she said, she was the only African-American in the building.
Complaints about the Trump organization’s rental policies continued to mount:
By 1967, state investigators found that out of some 3,700 apartments in Trump Village, seven were occupied by African-American families...
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