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Question	Answer
Missouri. Blacks arent citizens, therefore cant sue	Dred Scott vs Sanford, 1857
Created "separate but equal" legal theory	Plessy vs Ferguson, 1883
U.S. Supreme Court refused to impose a restrictive covenant in housing against individuals of Chinese descent	Gandolfo vs Hartman, 1892
First code of ethics in real estate, modified in 1934 to incorporate racial exclusion	National Assoc of Real Estate Boards Code of Ethics, 1913
Kentucky. A city ordinance prohibited the sale of real property to black individuals which was in violation of the 14th Amendment	Buchanan vs Warley, 1917
New York City. Private housing developments can discriminate	Stuyvesant/Peter Cooper Village vs NY, 1947
US Supreme Court ruled racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional	Hurd vs Hodge, 1948
"Separate but equal" gets reversed, segregation unconstitutional	Brown vs Board of Education, 1954
Ruled that the CRA of 1866 banned private, as well as govt, racial discrimination in housing	Jones vs Alfred Mayer Co, 1968
Allowed tenants to sue their landlords for discriminatory rental practices	Trafficante vs Met Life Insurance, 1972
Bans discriminatory advertising. Modern basis for established HUD advertising rules	United States vs Hunter, 1972
Legalized secret shopping/testing to verify fair housing practices in realty	Haven Realty vs Coleman, 1982