No Housing for Mr. Hurst

Title

No Housing for Mr. Hurst

Description

Mack Charles Hurst's struggle to find housing in West Raleigh was not uncommon. Hundreds of NCSU minority students and faculty members were discriminated against in their pursuit of housing. The total lack of options for students such as Mack Hurst led to the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

Creator

Cyrus B. King

Source

"Letter to John T. Caldwell from Cyrus B. King regarding West Raleigh Housing Discrimination," August 12, 1968, North Carolina State University, Office of the Chancellor, John Tyler Caldwell Records, 1959-1975, North Carolina State University Special Collections Research Center, Raleigh, NC.

Date

1968-08-12

Contributor

Mandy Benter

Subject

Good Neighbor Council

Type

document

Original Format

correspondence

Embed

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Files

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Collection

Race & Space

Citation

Cyrus B. King, “No Housing for Mr. Hurst,” The State of History, accessed April 29, 2024, https://soh.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/760.