Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great pleasure for me to participate in this meeting of the Urban League. Your organization, more than any other, has labored to bring the Negro to economic equality. Today your efforts are meeting a more sympathetic response from American business than before. Attitudes are changing rapidly. The white collar and the managerial ranks of our large enterprises at las tare opening up. The demand for qualified Negroes all of a sudden exceeds the number you are able to find. And Whitney Young's radical call of just two years ago, asking American business not just to be an equal opportunity...
TABLE 1 Nonwhites Employment Situation in 1965 (numbers in thousands) Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as % Occupation Group # % of total All employed persons 7,750 100.0 10.7 White-collar workers 1,510 19.5 4.7 Professional & technical workers 530 6.8 5.9 Managers, officials & proprietors 200 2.6 2.8 Clerical 630 8.2 5.7 Sales 150 1.9 3.1 Blue-collar workers 3,160 40.7 11.9 Craftsmen & foremen 520 6.7 5.6 Operatives 1,650 21.3 12.3 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 990 12.7 25.6 Service workers 2,450 31.7 26.3 Private household 980 12.7 43.6 Other 1,470 19.0 20.8 Farm workers 630 8.1 14.7 Farmers & farm...
...Situation in 1985: Projections and Goals (numbers in thousands) Continued Present Progress* Full Economic Equality Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as percent of total Nonwhite Employed Persons Nonwhite as percent of total OCCUPATION GROUP Number Percent Number Percent All employed persons 12,590 100.0 12.0 12,630 100.0 12.0 White-collar workers 4,190 33.3 7.8 6,420 50.9 12.0 Professional & technical workers 1,850 14.7 10.6 2,100 16.7 12.0 Manager, officials & proprietors 420 3.3 3.8 1,330 10.5 12.0 Clerical 1,510 12.0 8.4 2,160 17.1 12.0 Sales 410 3.3 6.0 830 6.5 12.0 Blue-collar workers...
TABLE 3 Median Education of Occupation Groups, 1965 and 1985 Estimated White 1965 Nonwhite 1985 Total Occupation Group (yrs.) (yrs.) (yrs.) White-collar workers Professional & technical workers 16.3 16.5 16.3 Managers, officials & proprietors 12.6 11.8 12.6 Clerical 12.5 12.6 12.5 Sales 12.5 12.3 12.5 Blue-collar workers Craftsmen & foremen 11.8 10.4 12.5 Operatives 10.7 10.2 12.0 Laborers, excluding farm & mine 9.9 8.6 11.0 Service workers Private household 8.9 8.9 10.0 Other 11.6 10.4 12.0 Farm workers Farmers & farm managers 8.9 5.9 8.8 Laborers & foremen...
There is really nothing for Rabbi Small to do except prove that the dead man did not commit suicide, but was murdered-and, for good measure, to go out and collar the murderer. Along the way, the rabbi unobtrusively offers a short course in Conservative Judaism, as well as some choice and not entirely flattering opinions about his fellow Jews. For example, Kernel-man explains why cantors like to call themselves by their diminutives: they are childishly vain...