Prejudice and Property: A Historic Brief Against Racial Covenants by former US Attorney General

CLARK, Tom C. Prejudice and Property: A Historic Brief Againt Racial Covenants. Washington, D.C: Public Affairs Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 104 pages. Introduction by Wesley McCune. Minor wear at top and bottom edge, overall a fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with some toning at spine and fore-edge. Inscribed on the front fly: "To Philip L. Graham, who did so much to promote so little-Philip B. Isling." From the introduction, by Wesley McCune: "It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of the legal cases which moved the Justice Department to prepare this brief. The fundamental question at stake is whether the courts should enforce real estate agreements that bar a man-a fellow citizen-from occupying this house or that because of the color of his skin or of the nature of his religious beliefs. Surprisingly enough, this private legal system was not put squarely before the Supreme Court until this year.".