Word: parren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, called Fullilove vs. Kreps, focuses on a 1977 federal law authorizing grants to local governments for public projects with $4 billion to be allocated by Dec. 31, 1978. Noting that minority-controlled companies had been getting only 1% of all Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other...
...federal level than might be expected. "People are taking hold of whatever handles they can find," said New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, "but it's very difficult to get hold of the handles of the Federal Government." That did not ease the fears of Maryland Democratic Congressman Parren Mitchell, leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, that social services will be cut most sharply by the economy knives. Mitchell predicted that "every single human-resources program is going to be in danger. Medicare and Medicaid, welfare, the jobs programs...
...them." Additionally, differences between Democrats and Republicans are blurring somewhat as both parties endorse policies that do not call for massive spending, such as tax reductions for businesses that hire the hard-to-employ. Still, the G.O.P. has a long way to go. Among ordinary blacks, says Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, disappointment with Jimmy Carter is "not enough to even make a dent." Adds James Compton, the head of Chicago's Urban League: "I don't see any philosophic approach in the Republican Party that will attract large numbers of black votes...
Like some other blacks, Parren Mitchell, the Maryland Representative who heads the congressional Black Caucus, was so deeply disturbed by the TV series that he had to stop watching after two episodes. Said he: "I couldn't watch the rest. I was too angry. If I had met any of my white friends, I would have lashed out at them from a vortex of primeval anger." And yet, Mitchell went on, he realized that the story "is as much a part of our legacy as Andrew Young being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Thurgood Marshall...
...liberal Democrats all assailed Bell. Joseph Rauh, vice chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, charged that Bell had given "aid and comfort to segregationists" while an Atlanta attorney, chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver and a member of the federal bench. Black Caucus Chairman Parren Mitchell accused Bell of being "the mastermind of Georgia's massive resistance" to school desegregation when he advised Vandiver from...