 Maslow created the AJCongress' Commission on Law and Social Action and with it, filed a discrimination suit against Columbia University, demanding that it change its discriminatory admissions quotas.He also filed a suite against Stuyvesant Town Housing Co. because of its racial policies against black tenants.In 1947, he fought for strict adherence to the Ives-Quinn Law which forbade discrimination in employment, charging that job agencies were disregarding this law en masse, 88% in fact 
He negotiated with Gertz, a department store in Jamaica, Queens, to hire blacks for the first time.