Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference of Branches, addresses the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing & Community Opportunity during a hearing on fair housing issues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Posted by Staff on February 28, 2006 |

Johnson says that if housing issues, including racial discrimination, facing members of the low-income and African-American communities in Mississippi are not addressed, then those people may be permanently displaced from their former homes. He says a state law and increased state and federal money can help these groups learn their rights under fair-housing laws. (1:09)

 
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February 28, 2006
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