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A 1979 article, published by Village Voice, reported on a civil rights suit that alleged that the Trumps refused to rent to black home-seekers, and quotes a rental agent who said Fred Trump instructed him not to rent to blacks and to encourage existing black tenants to leave. The case was settled in a 1975 consent degree described as "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated," but the Justice Department subsequently complained that continuing "racially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity.”
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Donald Trump reacted with fury today as a newspaper report from 1927 surfaced and appeared to suggest his father was arrested during a KKK riot in 1927.
A New York Times story from 1927 lists a 'Fred Trump' as one of the people taken in during a 'free-for-all' battle between police and 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan.
The address in the article also matches that of Trump's father in Queens
Boing Boing found the article and points out that despite the circumstances, it does not necessarily mean that Trump's father was a member of the white supremacist, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic organization.
At the time, he would have been just 21, long before he became a self-made millionaire as a real estate developer.
The article states that '1,000 Klansmen and 100 policemen staged a free-for-all' during a May parade.
Their anger had been prompted by claims that 'Roman Catholic' police officers from the NYPD had earlier stopped Klansmen taking part in a Memorial parade - and beaten them.
The Times reported that a KKK flyer claimed: 'Native-born Protestant Americans clubbed and beaten when they exercise their rights in the country of their birth.'
A Fred Trump was one of seven men 'arrested in the near-riot of the parade,' and that article notes he was discharged when the group was arraigned in front of magistrate Thomas F. Doyle in court in Jamaica, Queens. That could mean he was an innocent bystander swept up in the brawl.
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