In December 1950, the well-known folk singer who composed "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie, moved into a Brooklyn public housing project owned by Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father, and found it to be isolated by a color line that discriminated against all black renters of his properties.
According to The Guardian, for two years Guthrie occupied one of the units of Fred Trump's building and his connection with the real estate mogul from New York's outer regions, became one of the bitterest times of his life as a musician. Guthrie, a well-known music composer and singer, had sweeping indictments of social injustice, made some of his most bitter compositions during this era. These writings were all aimed at the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire and have never been published.
"My legacy has its roots in my father's legacy," Donald Trump said in his last year's racially charged declarations in connection with Trump Foundations. What sparked an even bigger outrage was Fred Trump made a fortune by collecting the rents of the beneficiaries of the foundation and even from the construction of public housing projects. When the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) finally decided to intervene and question federal loans and subsidies for urban apartment blocks, one of the first developers in line, was Fred Trump. U.S. Senate committee in 1954 investigated Trump for taking advantage of public agreements and for overpricing his Beach Haven for around $3.7 million.
Wayne Barrett, an American journalist, closely followed the cases filed against the Trumps in 1973 and 1978 by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department.
Meanwhile, in a report by The Washington Post, Will Kaufman, the professor of American poetry and culture at Britain's University of Central Lancashire and co-founder of the Maastricht (now Middelburg) Centre for Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands, extracted the revelation of Guthrie which said that "Donald did inherit his father's racism, and was probably actively coached in his father's racism, and worked with his father to perpetuate it,"
Donald has been frequently accused of racial discrimination after his comments about Mexicans and has constantly denied such charges.
