Urban League of Portland flyer refuting housing myths, circa 1952

The collection consists of a flyer sent by the Urban League of Portland, Oregon, titled "Don't Be Mis-Led!" The flyer disputes claims that a Black family moving into a majority-white or all-white neighborhood or Black people attending church in such a neighborhood will cause property values to decrease. The flyer states that the factors that cause property values to decrease are unrelated to race, religion, or nationality, and cites a 1952 survey in San Francisco, California, that found that the presence of Black residents in neighborhoods did not lower property values. The flyer also notes that the 1950 census showed that non-white families lived in 60 of Portland's 61 census tracts. There are notes, unrelated to the flyer's contents, written by the family the flyer was mailed to, the Milskis, on the title page.