Morris Milgram
Morris Milgram · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Real-estate developer who built racially integrated housing for over 20,000 people before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, pioneering open-occupancy communities.
1916, New York City, USA — 1997, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Philadelphia; New Jersey
Morris Milgram is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Real-estate developer who built racially integrated housing for over 20,000 people before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, pioneering open-occupancy communities.
Morris Milgram was a Jewish American real-estate developer who pioneered racially integrated 'open-occupancy' housing. Before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, he built integrated communities that housed more than 20,000 people, proving that integrated housing could work commercially. He saw fair housing as a moral cause drawn from his socialist and Jewish convictions.
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Source: Wikipedia (Morris Milgram); Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Real-estate developer who built racially integrated housing for over 20,000 people before the 1968 Fair Housing Act, pioneering open-occupancy communities.
Source: Wikipedia (Morris Milgram); Historical Society of Pennsylvania
