The National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing (NCDH, Norman grantee 1957–1969) was one of the leading advocacy organizations pressing for federal fair housing legislation throughout the 1960s. Founded in 1950 as an alliance of trade unions, churches, and civil rights organizations, NCDH successfully pushed cities, counties, and states across the country to pass laws prohibiting landlords, real estate agents, and banks from discriminating against Black families and other minorities when renting, selling, or financing homes.

Norman funded NCDH throughout the years of its most intensive lobbying campaign, as the organization worked to change the policies driving urban renewal — a wave of city redevelopment projects that demolished Black neighborhoods across the country to make way for highways, hospitals, and housing projects, displacing thousands of families with little compensation or recourse. NCDH’s years of organizing and advocacy helped secure the passage of the Fair Housing Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968, just days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The Act prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing on the basis of race, religion, and national origin, and stands as the final landmark legislative achievement of the Civil Rights Movement.