As the home of the University of California's main campus and of nine Nobel prizewinners, Berkeley likes to think of itself as more enlightened and sophisticated than all of those tract-house havens across the bay from San Francisco. Last January, in keeping with the community's idea of itself, the Berkeley City Council passed an exceedingly tough ordinance against discrimination in housing.
Shortly before, a citizens' committee had concluded that "discrimination within the city is widespread and general, both in the rental and sale of housing." In the last ten years, Berkeley's Negro population had increased 65%. to about 20% of the total...
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