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    The Case of the Checker-Board Ordinance: An Experiment in Race Relations

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    Jones & Smith v. Town of New Harmony United States Court of Appeals, Special Circuit. September 1, 1965. In 1963, the Town of New Harmony, Illinois, adopted a so-called "checkerboard ordinance," under which every residential building lot within its corporate limits was classified as either "N" or "W" pursuant to a plan permitting "N" property to be acquired and occupied only by Negroes and "W" property only by white persons. To classify the plot at the extreme north-east corner of New Harmony's corporate limits, the mayor flipped a coin at a public ceremony; with this as a base point, all other residential plots were thereupon designated, alternately, as "N" or "W". Public, commercial, industrial, recreational, institutional, and other nonresidential properties are not affected; but the residential areas of New Harmony are so laid out that the ordinance has produced in classification, and perhaps eventually would produce in practice, the "checker-board" from which it derived its popular name.
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