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...Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield. Milgram is in the business of building houses-and his passion is building them for both Negroes and whites...
...town. Ostensibly, the voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values, the Deerfielders backed the bond issue 2,635-1,208.* The Chicago law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz (senior partner: Adlai Stevenson...
Hurrah for Builder Milgram and Teacher Repsholdt, who advocated the integrated housing development in Chicago's Deerfield...
...writing because we own a home adjoining Mr. Milgram's "Maplecrest" here in Princeton. Without going into a long treatise on the subject, I would like to say that six years ago we bought our house for $14,500 before the advent of Maplecrest. Today the value has increased to the $20,000-$22,000 range. Houses similar to ours have sold for this amount just as quickly "after Maplecrest" as before...
...real-estate market, the tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder Morris Milgram of Philadelphia, a crusading businessman who has built four successful integrated communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey over the past five years. Through an Illinois subsidiary of his Modern Community Developers, Inc., Milgram settled on Deerfield as the ideal site for his next experiment in residential equality. When word of Milgram...