Word: steadham
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...categories, including white, black, American Indian, Filipino, Eskimo and Guamanian) and whether the respondent is of Spanish/Hispanic origin. Specific queries about race and national descent have been sought by minority group leaders who have argued that many of their members have been overlooked in past counts. Said Juanita Steadham, a prominent Creek Indian activist: "Before, the form said 'black and others.' Indians would not mark 'others...
Because an accurate count could lead to increased federal aid, minority leaders generally have been enthusiastically backing the census effort. Creek Indian Leader Steadham has been traveling for the Census Bureau through Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee to meet with groups of Indians and explain how the forms must be filled out. Coleman Young, Detroit's black mayor, is appearing in TV ads in that city to reassure his fellow citizens that they have nothing to fear from the survey...
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