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Newsletter 4 Kentucky Commission On Human Rights ALL DOORS ARE OPEN IN KENTUCKY Newsletter S Development (HUD) issued a final rule that prohibits In recognition of U.S. and discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived P Kentucky Fair Housing sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status I in regard to housing programs assisted by HUD or Month, April subject to a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing N Administration. This issue is dedicated to Fair Housing. Among other G Kentucky Civil Rights passage items within are fair housing-related articles by guest On March 15, 1968, Kentucky passed the Kentucky contributors, information about fair housing events, and Fair Housing Act. Newly elected state House of more. Representative Mae Street Kidd of Louisville was one of 2 There are still many residents who are not aware of just three African Americans in the legislature in 1968. 0 their right to live free from discrimination in the area of (She served until 1984.) housing. Mae Street Kidd 1 The national Fair Housing Month of April began in 1968 The first bill she sponsored as a celebration of the passage of the national Act, and 4 prohibited racial discrimination in burgeoned into an annual recognition. Many states, if housing. After several Kentucky not all, also adopted April as state Fair Housing Month. cities passed their own local In Kentucky, the Kentucky Commission on Human open-housing legislation in 1966 Rights and most partner organizations that either and 1967, Kidd worked with enforce civil rights or focus on housing assistance Senator Georgia Davis Powers and services to segments of the population, utilize April Representative Hughes McGill as a month of education and training. The goal is to to introduce the Kentucky Fair Housing Act to the raise awareness to people in the state who belong Kentucky General Assembly. The bill passed in 1968, to protected classes such as minorities, people with making Kentucky the first Southern state to enact such a children under age 18-yrs. old, people with disabilities, law on its own. people of various ethnicity or other national origins. U.S. Civil Rights Act passage Education and training are also provided to housing On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed providers and housing finance providers who desire or the federal Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibits are required to learn how to comply with fair housing discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing law. of housing. Protections from Housing Discrimination According to HUD, “[the national Act] came only The Kentucky Civil Rights Act, including amendments after a long and difficult journey...Congress regularly added to it in later years, prohibits discrimination in considered a fair housing bill, but failed to garner a housing, based on the protected classes of race, color, strong enough majority for its passage.” national origin, religion, disability, gender, and familial status. Cities experienced rioting after Rev. Martin Luther King’s assassination, and violence increased on a national level. Protection from discrimination based on sexual Also, according to HUD, the Vietnam War played a great orientation is provided through city ordinances by the factor in that deaths of American soldiers fell heaviest following six Kentucky locations: Covington, Frankfort, among African American and Hispanic infantrymen. Lexington, Louisville, Morehead, and Vicco. As a result, HUD says, “[their] families could not purchase In 2012, the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Continued next page or rent homes in certain residential Martin L. King Jr. said, “In the end, developments due to race and Thank you for we will remember not the words of national origin.” success of 50th our enemies, but the silence of our Organizations like the NAACP, Anniversary friends.” the GI Forum and the National You were not silent! Along with Committee Against Discrimination March on Frankfort thousands of other good people of In Housing brought more pressure Kentucky, you put your hands to the to bear on Congress to pass the Fair By John J. Johnson plow of justice. Housing Act to remedy the inequity, Executive Director according to HUD. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the Enforcement of Fair Housing law seeds you sowed by participating HUD reports that 35 years after On behalf of the in the march were in full bloom Congress enacted the U.S. Fair Allied as multitudes converged on the Housing Act, millions of complaints Organizations Kentucky capital city. for Civil Rights are still filed each year through The event was the largest gathering (AOCR), thank nonprofit fair-housing agencies, in the capital for human and civil you for your the U.S. Dept. of Housing and rights since the March on Frankfort leadership and Urban Development, the U.S. Dept. in 1964. of Justice, state agencies like the participation in Kentucky Commission on Human making the 50th Rights and local government Anniversary March on Frankfort a agencies. great success. Words seem inadequate to express the In the last 10 years, from fiscal year compassion, sense of purpose, unity, 2003 through 2013, the Kentucky and respect shown during the Commission on Human Rights has march. filed 454 housing discrimination complaints for people within the state. Many more people do not report housing discrimination due It not only provided a special and to lack of information about their unique opportunity to express rights or due to fear of legal process appreciation for the struggles or fear of recrimination. and sacrifices of the past, but also As a result, recognizing the Fair allowed us to join with comrades Housing Month of April and throughout the state who continue providing education, outreach and to stand on the frontline of the training play significant roles. Photos by Rikka Wallin struggle for social justice, equal Pictured above at the march, beginning at opportunity and equal treatment. far left, is Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Chair George W. Stinson, third from You stepped up and spoke up! With left is General Association of Baptists in Kentucky Moderator Dr. C.B. Akins, , your enthusiasm, the rally theme,” Kentucky Conference of NAACP Branches Lift Every Voice & Vote,” was carried President Raoul Cunningham, KY Gov. Steve throughout the state. Social media, Beshear, KY Human Rights Commission Exec. Dir. John J. Johnson, Simmons College of newspapers, television, students and Kentucky Board of Trustees Chair Dr. F. Bruce scholars all carried the important Williams, and KY Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson. news of equality. Kentucky Commission on Human Rights John J. Johnson, Executive Director 332 W Broadway, Suite 1400, Louisville, Kentucky 40202 . Phone: 502.595.4024 . Toll-free: 800.292.5566 Fax: 502.595.4801 . Email: [email protected] VISIT US ONLINE AT kchr.ky.gov Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Newsletter Victoria Stephens, Editor 2 We joined as a coalition of Kentuckians the chance to decide standards of neighboring states.” conscience under the banner of in an upcoming election whether to the AOCR made up of Kentucky allow persons convicted of a felony The League reports that as of 2010, organizations, marchers and (with some exceptions) to have their which it says is the most recent volunteers representing persons of voting rights automatically restored data available, approximately color, women, children, immigrants, after expiration of probation, final 180,000 people were permanently older Americans, people with discharge from parole, or maximum prohibited from voting. disabilities, the LGBT community, expiration of sentence. The Kentucky League of Women major religious groups, labor unions, Voters reports that: and civil liberties and human rights House Bill 70 passed the House, groups. but the Senate amended it with a “Kentucky is currently one of the substitute that would have placed four most restrictive states in regard This diverse assemblage of significant restrictions on automatic to voting rights restoration for Kentuckians gathered to celebrate restoration terms and eligibility. individuals convicted of a felony. the ’64 March on Frankfort and The House rejected the substitute Along with Florida, Iowa, and to galvanize support toward a and returned it to the Senate. Virginia, all felony convictions in nation that is as good as its ideals The session is ending and a chance Kentucky result in a lifetime ban on of promoting and protecting the voting unless rights are restored human and civil rights of all persons. for passage of some version of the legislation has dwindled. Senate by the governor. In most of these Majority leader Damon Thayer said four states the rights restoration Legislation to restore process is discretionary and voting rights is perhaps in the Courier-Journal on April 1 that he likely will not call the measure for often cumbersome, leaving few dead, but only for this a second vote because the Senate individuals who avail themselves of session, Keep forging backs the amendments he placed on the opportunity to apply. ahead the bill, which resulted in the Senate “The overall disenfranchisement rate Bill Substitute. The Kentucky Commission on of 7.35%, of the population, or 1 of Human Rights and the other Regardless, legislators need to hear every 14 adults, is nearly three times members of the Allied Organizations from constituents on this matter, the national average.” for Civil Rights urged everyone to even after this session. Please voice strong support of the passage call the KY Legislative Research of legislation that would restore Commission at 502.564.8100 and the basic American right to vote to ask to leave a message for the KY Human Rights more than 180,000 disenfranchised entire Legislature urging passage citizens in Kentucky. of legislation now or in the next Rulings on session that will bring to a public discrimination Support of such legislation was the vote the matter of automatically focus of the speaking portion of the restoring voting rights to people complaints th 50 Anniversary March on Frankfort who have completed their sentences program held on March 5.
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