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Protection on the basis of citizenship and immigration status was added, and jurisdiction over housing discrimination was extended to include protection of lawful occupation and persons with children. In 1984, the Private Clubs Bill, Local Law 63, prohibited discrimination by private clubs with more than 400 members. Protection on the basis of mental disability is added in 1981. Coretta Scott King, Eleanor Holmes Norton. March 1974 - Mayor Beame swears in Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chair of the Commission on Human Rights. The Commission's jurisdiction was expanded through successive amendments to cover disability, gender discrimination in public accommodations, reasonable accommodations in employment for religious observances, gender and marital status in housing accommodations and commercial spaces, and age in housing and public accommodations. The next decade saw much growth in the NYC Human Rights Law. This amendment greatly expanded the Commission's powers of investigation and enforcement, and extended the Commission's jurisdiction to prosecute discrimination based on race, creed, color and national origin in employment, public accommodations, and housing, as well as commercial space.
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In 1965, Local Law 55 and Local Law 80 were amended and combined into Local Law 97, the Human Rights Law of the City of New York.
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In 1962, the Commission on Intergroup Relations was renamed the Commission on Human Rights. This legislation, which gave COIR the power to investigate and hold hearings on allegations of discrimination in private housing, was the first in the nation to extend protection against discrimination to private housing. The first major expansion of COIR's powers was in 1958, with the passage of the Fair Housing Practices Law (Local Law 80, the Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs Law). It also coordinated efforts among federal, state and city agencies to develop courses of instruction on techniques for achieving harmonious intergroup relations within the City of New York. COIR was also charged with studying the problems of prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and disorder caused by intergroup tension, and developing intergroup dialogue. It was empowered to hold hearings, to report its findings of facts and to make recommendations to the Mayor. Wagner and the City Council moved to replace the original Committee with a city agency that had more extensive powers and permanent status: the Commission on Intergroup Relations ("COIR").ĬOIR was given the power to receive and investigate complaints, and to initiate its own investigations into racial, religious, and ethnic group tensions on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, and ancestry. By the mid 1950s, however, it was apparent that the Committee could not address the City's problems of discrimination and bias. The Committee had no enforcement powers, but was able to effect change by relying solely on the persuasive powers of its members. Its purpose was to "make New York City a place where people of all races and religions may work and live side by side in harmony and have mutual respect for each other, and where democracy is a living reality." LaGuardia created the Mayor's Committee on Unity by Executive Order on February 28, 1944. As a result of citywide concerns about race relations following riots in 1943, Mayor Fiorello H.