No one can measure the massive psychological damage America's blacks suffer from all the varieties of discrimination that they encounter daily. But now the courts are finding a way to put a price on some of the more blatant forms of bigotry. The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld a $250 award for humiliation and mental suffering to a Worcester black who was refused an apartment because of his race. In a similar case decided last week, the Rev. William Gray, minister of a Baptist church in Montclair, N.J., won $500 for "psychological trauma" ...
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