On this day, 30 November 1963, Black tenants in four rundown tenement buildings in Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn, went on rent strike, as part of a wave of rent strikes across the city in protest against slum conditions.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) announced that 11 families were withholding rent, joining 750 families in Harlem on rent strike. They were demanding that the city take over and renovate buildings at 104, 106 and 112 Rochester Ave, and that 110 Rochester Ave be condemned.

Marshall English, a New York CORE activist, told the New York Times: "We have talked with landlords, big landlords and have met with a number of city agencies… So far the result has been nil… When the landlord is faced with no rents, then we get some action".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_strike