REALTORS® move fair housing from aspiration to action one effort at a time.

Three events led to passage of the Fair Housing Act on April 11, 1968: the role of housing in the civil rights push, the Kerner Commission report on urban unrest, and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. NAR Director of Broadcasting Stephen Gasque walks through the dynamic events that resulted in the movement to increase housing fairness for all Americans.