Sentence examples for black tenants from inspiring English sources

The Landlord (1966; film 1970) presents a misanthropic white landlord transformed by his new black tenants.

In the nineteen-seventies, he was sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against black tenants.

Willie Mayzck is not Polish but African-American, from South Carolina, one of the few black tenants in the building.

Among other pearls of crackpot bigot wisdom, he has allegedly claimed that "black tenants smell and attract vermin".

Landlords charged high rents and managed to get them because racial segregation meant black tenants had few other options.

Despite what the law says, some landlords are still convinced that black tenants come with built-in problems.

While the white prospective tenant was given an immediate viewing, the black tenant was told the flat had been let.

There is, though, another important character in "Fallen Land," who stands in counterpoint to Nathaniel and offers him a chance to redeem himself — his neighbor Louise Washington, who inherited the development's 160 acres from free black tenant farmers.

When Mr. Avery said that he would rent one of his apartments to the first person willing to fork over $1,500 a month if the black tenant currently paying $800 moved out, Gregory all but called him a traitor.

The youngest of three children, Ben is as bewildered by the strife within the community as by the personalities on the farm: his ne'er-do-well brother, his tyrannical grandfather and his best friend, the youngest member of a black tenant family, whose fearless grandmother is determined to secure his education.

Why else would you be fine with Sipho (the name McKaiser gives the fictional black tenant) sleeping in the flat outside but heaven forbid that you should wake up in the morning and the first thing you see on your way to the bathroom is the heart attack-inducing spectacle of Sipho smiling at you, a horror that just might elicit a scream of apartheid proportions: "Help!