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Woody Guthrie, 'Old Man Trump' and a real estate empire's racist foundations

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imageWoody Guthrie lived in Fred Trump's Beach Haven apartment complex for two years.

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is...

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