[Clipping: Leader Requests Outside Aid In Buying Land for Negro Homes]
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Clipping of an article regarding how the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association will find private industries to finance the land for their housing project to aid the housing crisis for Black people. A meeting was held by various elected officials in Dallas to discuss how many homes should be constructed in order to provide living conditions rather than merely building more homes. Jerome Crossman, the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association concludes that they are several thousand Black families in need of adequate housing and that this should be considered first as finances and income brackets are minor aspects of …
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Clipping of an article regarding how the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association will find private industries to finance the land for their housing project to aid the housing crisis for Black people. A meeting was held by various elected officials in Dallas to discuss how many homes should be constructed in order to provide living conditions rather than merely building more homes. Jerome Crossman, the president of the Dallas Citizens' Interracial Association concludes that they are several thousand Black families in need of adequate housing and that this should be considered first as finances and income brackets are minor aspects of the project.
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Dallas Citizen's Interracial Association Records (AR0099), University of North Texas Special Collections
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Dallas Citizen's Interracial Association Records
Newspaper clippings, correspondence, and documents highlighting housing development, infrastructure, and integration issues in Dallas in the 1950s and 1960s.