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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived here, we didn't have any electricity and we didn't have any telephone." Franklin, a businessman and farmer, remembered that their mother liked to buy Wedgwood in the neighboring village. None, somehow, spoke at first of the overpowering father figure for whom the sun set at Campobello when he contracted polio and then rose again when he hobbled away-from it and them-to become the only four-term U.S. President...
Kaiser and the Steelworkers Union agreed to set up affirmative-action training programs at 15 of the company's plants in the U.S. five years ago. At that time, blacks accounted for less than 2% of the 273 skilled craftsmen at the Kaiser plant where Weber was employed, even though blacks made up 39% of the local work force. To close that gap, the company and the union decided to accept whites and blacks into the program at that plant on a 1-to-1 basis. When the program rejected Weber, he filed suit. Federal courts upheld his claim...
Civil rights leaders cheered the decision. Said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP: "Had we lost this case, the cause of affirmative action would have been set back ten years." The reaction in many boardrooms was relief. Before the ruling, employers were caught in a bind. If they gave minorities a break to remedy racial imbalance in hiring, they risked suits from rejected whites like Weber. But if they had a racially imbalanced work force and did nothing about it, they risked getting sued by minorities as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); they also stood...
...companies may find that Weber will bring even more pressure on them-not just from blacks-to set up affirmative-action programs. For instance, Vilma Martinez, head of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, says that Hispanics will see the ruling as "the means to open doors that have been closed for too long." Women's groups believe Weber may help them expand their already considerable gains. Even some white ethnic groups that feel left out in the scramble for economic opportunity, such as Poles, Italians, Ukrainians and Czechs, may interpret Weber as a challenge that they...
Government regulations generally require employers with 50 employees and federal contracts worth more than $50,000 to set "goals and timetables" for bringing their minority and female work force up to their percentages in the available labor pool. About 325,000 employers, with a total payroll of 30 million workers, have these programs. The goals are not supposed to be inflexible quotas, though in practice it can be hard to tell a "goal" from a "quota...