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DG: You told me about helping take out some of the anti-discriminatory clauses from leases.

KS: Oh, yes. I, when... about the time we were in the process of buying our house, which was in 1951, there were many homes that people could not buy because they had restrictive clauses in them. And we were fortunate to be able to buy our house, because we bought it from our friends. But I found out that there were...

DG: This is north of the...

KS: North of the Ship Canal. And so I was quite active in a talking campaign to inform people of the injustice of discriminatory clauses in their deeds, and in their practice of selling and buying homes and I think it's something that many, many people got quite active in. And so it's possible for anybody to buy a home anyplace now. And it wasn't that way before. So, we're very happy about that.

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