“The atmosphere in which the campaigning for (California) Proposition 14 is being conducted has been so emotional as almost to preclude calm analysis by anyone” wrote the Desert Sun Editorial Board in October 1964.
Proposition 14 was a ballot initiative proposing a California Constitutional amendment to repeal the Rumford Act which called for an end to racial discrimination in all public and private housing in the state but exempted most single-family housing before being passed in September 1963. The Rumford Act made discrimination in public housing and in all residential…
