Word: parren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McKissick having had his say, the chairman of the panel, Rep. Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.) entertained additional comments from the floor. A woman from Boston making reference to local landlord Maurice Gordon, called on the Black Caucus to introduce legislation that would make landlords responsible for all damage done by fire when the landlord had been warned of building code violations. Mitchell explained to the woman that it would be very difficult to pass a federal law concerning violations of local building codes. Instead he suggested that any black person, anywhere in the country, who had a particular grievance...
Representative Parren Mitchell of Maryland concluded that "racism in the military is so deep, so wide and so effective that we can't possibly cope with it." Frank Render, a black former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity, observed that in the Defense Department "one must necessarily plow through layers of bureaucracy, but even when that was done, too often bigotry and basic racism thwarted our attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved...
...black leaders, those who spend their time in querulous complaint and constant recrimination against the rest of society." Agnew overlooked the obvious fact that these African rulers after all run their own countries; they could hardly be expected to engage in "querulous complaint" about their own regimes. Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, a member of the black congressional caucus, wondered if Agnew was suggesting that black Americans should fight racism in the U.S. in the manner of Jomo Kenyatta, who was convicted of leading the bloody Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya before independence...
...three freshman Congressmen, Representatives Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.). Bella S. Abzug (D-N. Y.), and Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.) asked Secretary of the Army Stanley T. Resor to investigate charges that Font is being harassed because of his antiwar activities and the housing report that he compiled...
...groups, were forwarded to places where the thieves thought they would do the most good-or harm, as it were, to the FBI. Among the recipients: liberal Columnist Tom Wicker of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, South Dakota Senator George McGovern and Congressman Parren Mitchell, a black Democrat from Maryland...