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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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In San Francisco, Ceylonese physician Dr. Ritasarini Moises faced nearly three years of housing discrimination due to her race since arriving in 1954 for a medical fellowship. Her story's publication led to numerous apartment offers, including free room and board.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.—For almost three years, racial prejudice prevented a Ceylonese woman physician from finding an apartment here.
Her story was printed in local newspapers today, and she was overwhelmed with offers of apartments.
Dr. Ritasarini Moises, 24-year-old daughter of a physician in Ceylon, was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She returned home for her medical degree.
In 1954 she came back to work under a pathology fellowship at the University of California Medical School here. Because of her color, Dr. Moises said, she could find no decent housing. Recently she had been staying in a room at the American Academy of Asian Studies.
"We in Ceylon," Dr. Moises said, "think of America as utopia, where everyone has freedom and equality of opportunity. I knew there were racial problems here but I did not think they would apply to me.
"I confess that now I have mixed feelings about liberty and equality, feelings I try to control, but it is difficult to be philosophical when you are in trouble."
A secretary of the Council for Civic Unity said telephones had been ringing all day with offers of housing for the physician.
"Some of the callers offered room and board without charge," she said.
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Domestic News Details
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San Francisco
Event Date
1954 (Reported Jan. 23)
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overwhelmed with offers of apartments after story printed; some offers included room and board without charge
Event Details
Racial prejudice prevented Dr. Ritasarini Moises, a 24-year-old Ceylonese woman physician graduated from University of California at Berkeley and with medical degree from Ceylon, from finding decent housing in San Francisco for almost three years since arriving in 1954 for a pathology fellowship at University of California Medical School. She had been staying in a room at the American Academy of Asian Studies. After her story was printed in local newspapers, telephones rang with housing offers via the Council for Civic Unity.