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  1. So Booker's parents, with the help of the Fair Housing Council, found a white couple to impersonate them. That couple toured houses, placed bids and did the negotiating, all with the Bookers' secret instructions. When it came time to close on a house in Harrington Park, Booker's father showed up, along with a lawyer.

  2. Mar 6, 2019 · 06/03/2019 • 12 minute read. Admissions Advice. When Cory Booker was a small boy his parents bought a house. Their main criteria for the purchase was that the home be in an area that contained good public schools, which saw the couple - two of the first African American executives of multinational IT company IBM - looking at properties in ...

  3. Jun 8, 2019 · Booker has made affordable housing central to his campaign, and often tells the story of his parents’ struggle to buy a home in stump speeches. He told that story once again in an op-ed...

  4. I’d like to share a story.⠀ ⠀ In 1969, one year after the passage of the Fair Housing Act guaranteeing equal access to housing for all Americans regardless of race, religion, or national origin,...

  5. Aug 21, 2020 · by adminnewspack August 21, 2020. Last week, I listened intently to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker recount the story of how his family encountered housing discrimination when they attempted to move into an upscale community in the New Jersey suburbs back in the 1960s.

  6. Oct 10, 2019 · Of course, the central story in Bookers stump speech is a description of how his parents, when moving to New Jersey, had a difficult time finding housing as African American professionals. Booker engages in the tale of Cary and Carolyn Booker trying to move into a neighborhood with good public schools.

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  8. Feb 1, 2024 · By Brian Bennett. February 1, 2024 8:00 AM EST. On the wall behind his Senate office desk, Cory Booker keeps a map of Newark, N.J.’s Central Ward, where he moved fresh out of Yale Law School in...

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