Rosa #221 · March 10 1955 · private housing · anti-quota
Rosa Parks #221: NAACP March 10 1955 private-housing builder-quota opposition
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Rosa Parks Papers Finding #221 (GPT-6 Sol, commit 98161a01): a March 10, 1955 national NAACP circular Suggestions for Integration in Private Housing rejected a builders’ proposed ten-percent allocation for Black buyers as an extension of segregation, and instead urged branch meetings with builders, mortgage bankers, and realtors toward integrated sites, financing, and availability.
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Builders’ association plan: each member allocate 10% of that year’s construction for “Negroes.” NAACP opposed — would extend segregation — and reported communicating opposition to the builders’ president. Mortgage-bankers’ minority-housing initiative likewise criticized for thinking in terms of Black housing rather than integrated housing.
- Constructive alternative (page 2): choose sites not merely adjoining all-Black or industrial/railroad areas; ask about financing mixed communities; make homes available across developments rather than concentrating; cite studies challenging nonwhite-buyer property-value claims; keep national special assistant for housing informed.
- LOC Rosa Parks Papers mss859430186 leaves 5–6. SHA-256 leaf5
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- Craft limits held: NAACP descriptions/recommendations — not builders’ compliance, local meetings, integration outcomes, Parks drafting/reading/implementing, or the communication to the builders’ president. Folder placement ≠ authorship. Adjacent Housing Division urban-renewal text (leaf 7+) must not be conflated.
- Pre-Montgomery-boycott account of anti-segregation approach to private construction and credit. Distinct from public-housing/urban-renewal papers and from #219/#220 1956 circulars.
Repo: naacp-1955-private-housing-builder-quota-opposition.
Photo track remains distinct from #191–#221 text findings. #198 flyer correction held.