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in effect was was your action in your opinion to sort of sit in strike as of sunday morning it was sit in strike and for the benefit of my wife and the other young lady involved. Mrs latham. Uh They started it on saturday and we just

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continue it it's sunday morning. You are convinced in your mind that this is a a cut and dried case of discrimination. Yes. And uh I any suspicions that I might have had that it was not were removed this morning when I called Standard Building company and

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uh everybody but the girl answering the telephone is on a vacation and nobody knows when anybody will return personnel the Gillard brothers, anybody else Do you intend to make any further protests or your treatment at forest knows? Yes quite a number of my friends have urged

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me to continue in this effort that uh I if that if I did give it up that uh the other 74,000 negroes in San Francisco would lose a golden opportunity To press the right to at least to be shown a home whether they're interested in purchasing

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or not. I understand that the homes of somewhere in the range of $27,000 now and I'm not sure I'd be so interested in purchasing a home for $27,000. And this is the information which could have been given to me more than a week ago but it

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never was but I plan to continue to protest. Was mr brown. Well forest Knolls will provide two things for me. I think. One is that I understand from friends who send their kids to the schools in the area that the schools are less populated than any

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other in san Francisco. There are number of homes up there but the density of population isn't as great as it is in other areas. Did you at that time decided to stay there as a sort of protest or were you just waiting? No. I waited for

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a few minutes thinking maybe that these people were not involved and that sales personnel would return. But then I decided that this was really discriminatory practices and that if they're going to be this way I was just going to wait them out until they finally would

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show me that house.