You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight's on.

I'm going to take you back now to 1966.

In the last show, Rod Serling delivered that great speech at UCLA.

He mentioned the Rumford Act, he mentioned Proposition 14 and those might be things that the American listeners

are already aware of. But for anyone who isn't, like me, it was all new information.

I just wanted to give a little more detail on what those things are.

So just going from Wikipedia to fill in a few of those details, the

Rumford Fair Housing Act was passed in 1963 in California to help end racial

discrimination by property owners and landlords who refused to rent or sell their

property to people based on their ethnicity.

So for example, a white landlord might refuse to let their property to a black family

and just wait for a white family to come along, that kind of thing.

The act provided that landlords could not deny people housing because of ethnicity, religion, sex,

mouthless status, physical handicap or familial status. Now Proposition 14 in 1964 was sponsored

by the California Real Estate Association to counteract the effects of the act and the wording of

Proposition 14 was that neither the state nor any subdivision or agency thereof shall

deny limit or abridged directly or indirectly the right of any person who is

willing or desires to sell lease or rent any part or all

of his real property to decline to sell, lease or rent such property to such person or persons

as he, in his absolute discretion, chooses. So basically what Proposition 14 was saying is that they wanted landlords,

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