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Wolf v. Marlton Corp.
It should be noted that the first civil rights law passed since 1875 was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, shortly before this case, and that no federal law prohibited race-based discrimination in the housing market until the Fair Housing Act (part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968), which was passed shortly following the assassination of Martin Luther King. The 1950s were also a peak for "Levittown" style housing -- mass construction of single-family suburban housing. Developers of those communities (as with the Levittowns themselves) often refused to sell to non-whites.
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