Word: wattendorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barshak said yesterday that CORE's case was weakened by the fact that Mrs. Williams, the Negro whose application for an apartment was rejected, was not among the sit-in demonstrators. Also, the arrests took place after the Wattendorf office had closed...
Filene and his two companions were arrested after they had sat in for six hours at the G. V. Wattendorf Real Estate Co. in Dorchester. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which sponsored the sit-in and simultaneous picketing outside the Wattendorf offices, charges that the company discriminates on the basis of race...
According to Filene, CORE testers found evidence of discrimination on two occasions. Last Tuesday, Wattendorf agents allegedly showed a white woman several apartments after telling a Negro none were available. On Friday, Filene said, Wattendorf sales manager John Coleman agreed to show an apartment to the Negro, Mrs. Alma Williams, and then showed her one in a vandalized building in a Negro section...