Prior to the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, Jewish people were excluded from living in many white Christian neighborhoods throughout Connecticut due to the use of restrictive covenants and quotas.
"[1] Prior to the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, between the 1920s and the 1960s, restrictive covenants in real estate barred Jewish people from living in many white Christian neighborhoods throughout the state.
In New Canaan, these covenants were known as "gentleman's agreements" and were used to exclude Black people, Jews, and other minority groups.
In 1934, Wesleyan University president James L. McConaughy became the first president of an American university to publicly acknowledge the existence of Jewish quotas when he went of record discouraging Jewish students from entering the field of medicine.
[5] During the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, several instanced were reported in Stamford at a high school of antisemitic graffiti of swastikas painted on campus.