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Thomas E. Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology, has been working for about a year on a committee to interest southern Negro college faculty and students in coming to northern universities...
...result of Pettigrew's work for the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Education of the American Psychological Association could be an eventual increase in the number of Negro faculty members at northern universities...
...Pettigrew said that employment, the only area in which the 1964 Civil Rights Act affects the North, is the most important problem. The amount of crime and dependence upon relief among Negroes can be traced in part to their high unemployment rate and the low wages of those who are employed, he added...
...Pettigrew advocated broadening the minimum wage to cover more service workers as a remedy for this situation. Since the proportion of non-white to white service workers is disproportionately large and has been increasing, he contended, the level and breadth of the minimum wage has special relevance to Negro employment problems...
...Pettigrew emphasized the immediacy of the need for a Civil Rights Act directed at the North. "Race riots," he asserted, "are much more imminent in the North than in the South. It's not where you are on an absolute standard," he pointed out, "it's where you think you ought...