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In 1962, John W. Baird attracted the ire of fellow members of the Chicago Real Estate Board, which would later change its name to the Chicago Association of Realtors, when he stood in front of the Chicago City Council and called for an open occupancy law that would bar discrimination in real estate sales due to race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry.
Three years later, Baird, then president of his family real estate brokerage Baird & Warner, resigned from the trade group his great-grandfather had helped found to protest the use of its funds to push for discrimination. Years later, Baird would say that supporting fair housing was simply “the right thing” to do, according to his 2013 obituary.