This 1968 Baltimore S un article describes a change in the Levitt Company's formerly segregated operations of its Joppatowne development. In the article, Levitt Chairman WIlliam Levitt described a series of newspaper ads his company was running to announce the change in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (recently assassinated). Levitt noted that formerly, Levitt's policy as based upon "local law or custom." The change came just before passage of the federal Fair Housing Act in 1968, making all racial discrimination in housing illegal.