'Applications were stamped with a big C for colored': Inside racial discrimination suit filed against Donald Trump by Justice Dept
Decades before Donald Trump became the president of the United States and his brushes with racism were highlighted by the media, the Republican and his real estate tycoon father were pulled up and sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination in 1973.
As Donald Trump ventured out from Queens to Manhattan in the 1970s, aspiring to make it big in the city as a business tycoon, he and his father Frederick Trump's well-established real estate organization was dealt a massive blow — a lawsuit by the Justice Department for discriminating against black and Latino families in Trump housing facilities.
The alleged rampant discrimination in the Trump Organization came to the fore after Godfrey Jacobs, Housing Tester, Urban League, then a young black man, walked into the Beach Haven Apartments in Queens and was told by the superintendent there was nothing for him to see there because no flats were vacant at the moment. Jacobs, after the inquiry, left the building.