Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poussaint's concern is partially based on his experiences while living in East Harlem, New York City and in Jackson, Mississippi in 1965-66 when he served as Southern Field Director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Eighteen of his major publications have dealt with the dilemma of the American black...
Burden of Proof. The 1965 statute was passed because the case-by-case enforcement suits initiated under earlier civil rights acts had proved inadequate to overcome Southern resistance to Negro voting. The law banned literacy tests in seven states where less than half the voting-age population was registered. It also allowed the Attorney General to assign federal examiners to observe elections in counties covered by the act. Most important, it forbade the affected states and counties to adopt new voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden...
...than two-fifths of the gain. The reason, many aggrieved U.S. businessmen contend, is that Japan has been flooding American markets with goods made at far lower wage rates than any U.S. company could get away with paying. Some $400 million worth of textiles were notable among those exports. Southern Congressmen have set up a rising clamor for quotas to restrain the influx, and the textile issue has become a symbolic...
...understandable, but the wisdom of fighting Japanese protectionism with U.S. protectionism is open to argument. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans has warned that continued rapid growth of Asian textile imports in the 1970s could wipe out the jobs of 600,000 U.S. textile workers, including many undereducated laborers in Southern towns. On the other hand, efficient U.S. textile companies have managed to prosper in spite of import competition. Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills and J. P. Stevens & Co. have steadily increased sales and profits...
Chances for a Deal. The Nixon Administration has committed itself so deeply to textile quotas, however, that the issue has become a test of its credibility. During his campaign, Nixon promised Southern voters that he would press for quotas, and now many businessmen believe that he owes them some import protection. The Administration has threatened to take unilateral action if it cannot persuade Japan and other trading partners to accept "voluntary" quotas. U.S. action could involve the revoking of textile-tariff concessions that have been granted in the past, or Congress could legislate quotas. Either way, a worldwide trade...