OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma City officials are looking for volunteers to search through thousands of land and housing records to identify discriminatory language.
“It literally says, like, you cannot sell this property or rent it or lease it to people of certain racial and ethnic backgrounds,” said Emma Winiski, Oklahoma City’s Human Rights Commission Compliance Officer.
Although these discriminatory practices were outlawed in the 1960’s after the Fair Housing Act, over 6,000 plat documents containing the language remain…