NAACP Asks Palm Springs To Apologize For Destroying Homes

NAACP is demanding an apology and reparations from Palm Springs for destroying homes in a "city-engineered holocaust."

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November 13, 2000, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Beginning in the mid-1950s, Palm Spring burned and bulldozed homes located on a rundown mile-square area of reservation land, which had been targeted for development. According to a state investigation conducted between 1966 and 1968, evictions came with little warning and the residents, most of them blacks and Hispanics, never got money to find new homes. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: NAACP asks Palm Springs to apologize and pay for destroying homes

Monday, November 13, 2000 in The San Diego Union-Tribune

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