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PRIVATE SCHOOLS: The Internal Revenue Service is
digesting ,a solid week of pre-Christmas testimony on
guidelines it has proposed to determine whether certain
private schools claiming tax exemptions (for themselves and
their donors) don't discriminate.
In a decision upheld by the United States Supreme Court,
a U.S. District Court ruled in 1 971 that raciafly-discrimina-tory
private schools can't qualify for tax-exempt status.
But until now, IRS established no criteria to deter
mine who was discriminating, inspite of prodding by the
U.S. Civil Rights Commission and others.
.Tnere m 18-20,000 private elementary and second
ary schools in the nation, but the focus of th6 proposed
IRS guidelines is on those which (1) have been adjud
icated to be racially discriminatory (20 schools) or (2)
were created or substantially expanded concurrently with
desegregation in their communities and have little or no
minority student enrollment (up to 3,500 schools).
The guidelines offer several ways for those schools in
the "adjudicated" or "suspect" groups to show non-discriminatory
intent or performance.
But most of te 250 witnesses spoke against the guide
liens. Estimates of the number of letters which have poured
into IRS and Congess - nearly all opposed -exceed
150,000.
The Civil Rights Commission supported the IRS
effort as necessary to federal civil righ'ts enforcement.
RESIDENCE PROOF: A Los Angeles Superior Court
juage nas upheld county regulations requiring aliens
applying for relief payemtns to prove that they are legal
residents entitled to remain in this country indefinitely.
MED SCHOOLS: Black enrollment in the nation's 124
medical schools has dropped, despite an increase in over
all enrollment.
Black students now comprise 6.4 per cent of the fresh
man class, compared to 6.7 per cent last year.
A breakdown of the nation's 62,242 med students
shows: 86,4 per cent are white, 5.7 are black, 3.6 Hispanic,
2.6 Asian-American, 0.3 native American, and 1 .4 are for
eign students.
SUPREME COURT: The Supreme Court has agreed to
review a decision in which an employer, with no proven
history of racial discrimination, was ordered not to give
special job preference to minority workers.
Brian Weber, a Kaiser aluminum plant worker in
Gramercy, La., complained of "reverse discrimination"
four years ago when he was bypassed for an in-plant craft
training program which called for 50 per cent black and fe
male participation.
The U.S. District Court in.New Orleans and the 5th U.S.
Curcuit Court of Appeals said the program was not legal
because there was no proof of past discrimination in trie
plant.
INDIAN SUIT: Improverished Indians on 300 reserva
tins have Tiled a class action suit against the Department of
Agriculture, charging it with failure to implement year-old
federal antihunger programs for reservations.
Congress wrote special provisions into the Food Stamp
Act in September 1977 to allow, among other things, both
the food stamp and commodity programs to operate on the
same reservation, provided that the same persons didn't
participate in both.
The USDA still hasn't implemented the law, Indian
spokepersons complained.
NEW GUIDELINES: The Equal Employment Oppor
tunity Commission issued new affirmative action guide
lines last month stating that employers and unions have a
legal obligation to "eliminate barriers to equal opportune
ty without waiting for a government nudge.
The guidelines were designed to assure supportive em
'employers of protection from liability "to the greatest
possjbje En(t,accoTdinf to EEOC chief Eleanor Holmes
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They encouraged "selt-analysis" by employers and a
"reasonable basis" for a.a. programs that could include
goals and timetables.
WOMEN'S CREDIT: Blommingdale's department store
has agreed to pay $50,000 in civil penalties for allegedly
discriminating against women credit applicants, making it
th first company ever to pay a civil penalty under the 1975
Equal Credit Opportunities Act.
In an action Drought against 16 of its New York
Washington, D.C., and Boston area stores by the , Federal
Trade Commission, it was accused of failing to consider
alimony, child support and separate maintenance pay
ments or income from part-time-jobs, welfare payments,
pensions, etc, of some female applicants.
DROPOUTS OUTEARN: A white male high school
dropout earns substantially more than a white female with
a college degree, an new federal study shows.
White male dropouts averaged $9,379 earnings in 1976,
white female college educated women earned $7,176.
WOMEN MINERS: The nation's second largest producer
of bituminous coal, Pittsburgh-based Consolidated Coal
has agreed to pay $370,000 to women it refused to hire
as coal miners in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The company settled th 1 -year-old suit out of court,
commenting that since 1975, it has been hiring females at a
rapid rate.
It's present employee force is 2 1 ,000.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Final federal guidelines on
how not to be guilty of sex discrimination in
school athletic programs should be ready by March, says
Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and
welfare.
Califano hopes to have them in force by fall.
He unveiled a draft last month. Interested parties, in
cluding colleges and men's and women's athletic associa
tions were given 60 days to submit their reactions.
Federal law ( Title IX) passed in 1972 called for an
end to sex discrimination in any "educational program or
activity receiving federal financial assistance," which some
interpreted as calling for equal per capita spending for
male and female intercollegiate athletics.
In 1974, Congress added a clarifier that the regulations
should "include resonable provisions considering the nature
of the sports."
While the guidelines upgrade sports opportunities for
women, they also permit some differences based on costs of
a particular sport and scope of competition.
PUBLIC BROADCASTING: The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) funded a $186,000 study of minority
participation in public broadcasting,and the results are in:
' it's part of the problem, they show.
A 28-member task force spent 18 months to produce
a 496-page document which details how the medium's three
major organizations, CPB, National Public Radio, and
Public Broadcasting Service, are failing to meet the
needs of minorities in programming, decision-making
employment, and training.
The CPB Board will mull the report's findings and come
up with recommendations by May, it promises.
MATERNITY LEAVE: United Airlines can't require
its stewardesses to take unpaid maternity leave in early
pregnancy.
The Supreme Court has allowed that decision, by the
-Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court to
-stand.
LENDING PRACTICES: Home financing discnnuna
on is based more on race than on property location, a
awnprehensive new study shows.
The Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies looked
atlending practices in New York City-Long Island, Roch
eir, Syracuse, Buffalo, and the Albandy-Schenectady-jjoy
areas.
.rfn all but the. latter, area, mortgage applications of
blacks were twice as likely to be turned down as those of
whites, ' although socio-economic, property, and
aelghborhood characteristics were similar.
IPOLICE PREJUDICE: A highly-decorated black San
jprancisco police officer who said he could cope with guns
being aimed at him but couldn't put up, with co-workers
whs , just don't accept blacks" has been awarded a dis
ability pension.
Mounting racial tension on the force in recent years
have him high blood pressue, he testified to the retirement
board.
BOY SCOUTS: The Boy Scouts of America discrimin
ate against boyis with physical handicaps, federal court
suit alleges.
Representing three Scouts with muscular dystrophy
and one with cerebral palsy, the New Jersey Public Advo
cates accused the Scout organization of violating the 1973
federal Rehabilitation Act. by accepting federal financial
aid while maintaining a discriminatory advancement pro
gram. The four were denied Eaele. second-class, and Tender
foot awards because they weren't allowed to substitute
oral exams for physical tests.
SEPARATE TOILETS: Maryland's Attorney General
says separate toilets for men and women are prohibited
under the state's equal rights amendment.
Responding to a shopping center developer, The AG
punned, in a four-page "legally-sound" decision, that: "It is
our hope this opinion will also flush away what has been a
scare argument against thepassage of the federal ERA."
CrVIL ACTIONS: In recent civil actions, the U.S.
Department of Justice has filed against:
-A Fauquier County, Virginia roller skating rink owner,
who allegedly denied admission to blacks;
-A Franklin, Tennessee restaurant owner, charging he
wouldn't serve blacks;
An Atlanta, Georgia apartment complex owner,
alleging refusal to consider the income of women under 28
in determining financial qualifications of married couples
seeking rentals: and
-A Fort Lauderdale, Florida real estate firm, charging
violation of the Fair Housing Act by sending letters to
white homeowners in a subdivision with increasing black
homeownership, warning that they would lose substantial
sums of money unless they took action.
It also obtained a consent decree from a Dallas, Texas
real estate developer to sell home , sites and make
mortgage loans to black persons and Hispanics.
CHICAGO GUILTY: The city of Chicago has been
ordered to pay nearly $3 million in damages to 225 female
Department of Public Works employees.
The federal judge who found the city guilty of violating
federal civil rights laws ordered awards ranging from $1 ,000
to $52,880.
He also stayed his decision giving the city time to appeal.
WOMEN LEGISLATORS: Women now represent a total
of 10.2 per cent of the members of all state legislatures.
Figures from the National Women's Education Fund
show that the recent election increased their presence
from 703 to 761.
More than 25 per cent of New Hampshire's legislature
is now female. In the Colorado, Vermont, Connecticut,
an Washington legislatures, they comprise from 18 to 22
per cent.
In six states-Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and Utah-women comprise less than 4 per cent.
FAST FINISH: The Year 1978 ended with a rush of
U.S. Civil Rights Commission activity. During December, it:
-Issued a report on the experiences of 14 states which
have added Equal Rights Amendments to their constitutions;
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BY ALFRtDA L. MADISoN
America's human rights certainly seem to extending
more to foreigners lhan to black Americans who have
played a vital role in every phase of the country's growth
from the very beginning.
Senator Humphrey, of New Hampshire, held a press
conference explaining a bill he plans to introduce in the
Senate lor irrcreased Vietnamese immigration. Among the
reasons given by the senator is that there is extreme
discrimination against VeiJjiam's ethnic Chinese. He further
staled that many of these Vietnamese were United States
supporters: they placed their faith in this country. He asked
the qustion is it morally correct to to ignore them? The
same reasons that Mr. Humphrey gave for bringing Viet:
namese to the Uniteed States for jobs, certanly more justi
fiably apply to black Americans.'
When I questioned Mr. Humphrey about bringing foreign
eis to this country for jobs, while about one-fourth of black
Americans are unemployed, and all one has to do is look
around and see these outsiders holding jobs that were
traditionally, black, he said that these foreigners worked
for a below the minimum wage salary and that it was it was
the hard core blacks that were not trained for these
jobs. I was compelled to tell the senator that if these
and the hard core untrained blacks, it is a terrible indict
ment on the United Slates not have trained them but
instead allowed them to become hard core. When Mr.
Humphrey who took an oath to uphold the laws of the
country says foreigners work for a below the minimum
wage, he is encouraging subverting the law rather than
compliance.
There are many trained blacks who can't find
jobs Fred Williams, of Senator Birch Bayh's staff has
an immense file of black professionals who qualify and
wolld like to have professional jobs on the staffs of
congressmen or committees, but only tokenism in black
hiring exists here on Capitol Hill. These legislators who
passed non-discriminatory employment laws are the
greatest violators of them. In fact, they exempted them
selves from the law and the Senate refuses to let discuss
ion of their discrimatory practices, come up on the floor
In talking to Minority Senator Leader Baker, last spring,
about having the bill for fair employment congresssional
practices brought up on the floor, he said that the Senate
should straighen itself out, bul because of more pressing
business, the Senate could mot ake up thai issue. 1 asked
was any issue more important than implementing the man
dates of the Constitution which give equal justice to all
of its citizens?
Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a speech recently, at
Howard University stated that blacks have made some pro
gressbut that everybody has made progress. However, he
said that the gap is widening between blacks and whites
Unemployment among blacks is approximately 23 percent
and to observe closely the actions of both the executive
and legislative branches of our government, there appears
to be just about a negligible effort to provide jobs and
justice for blacks.
The President's budget, really makes cuts in the iob
programs To expect the private sector to employ minor
ities, seems almost a futile hope. Even when some corpora
tins venture programs to correct their unjust hiring
practices, they are quite likely to be faced with law
suits by whites who yell, 'reverse discrimination'.. There
has to be a reversal of some practices in order to correct
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a wrong., blacks are looKing wun nopcrui expcciauuii upon
the Supreme court's decsion in the Weber Kaiser Aluminum
opinion
BY RALPH WILLIAMS -
Last week I had the opportunity to visit one of our pen
al, excuse me, rehabilitation institutions.
As you approach the grounds, excuse my lack of know
ledge, campus, you tiotice the lack of landscaping, lack of
color, sterile walls and aheav
color, sterile walls and a heavy atmosphere feelings of
hopelessness. I know, that correctional institutions are not
suppose to be inviting or cheery. They are to keep closeted
hope, faith and charity, these structures radiate hopeless
ness and the non-productive attitudes that germinate in
there surroundings.
We know the reason for our correctional institutions is
to keep incorrigibles from joining with the family. But
why do our public school have to have this self same drab
exterior. When I approach our public institutions of learn
ing, I set drab buildings, little or no landscape and most
have no color or individuality about them. The buldings
are just there.
Upon entering most of our public schools, a visitor is
instantaneously captured by the atmosphere of sterile
walls (and the omnipresent smell of anaesthesia) with no
pictures of living folks, community leaders, or known
landmarks in our city especially the community, on the
walls of these institutions. Void are quotes of Martin
Luther King, Langston Hughs and Frederick Douglass.
Quotes or slogans of eight to ten words on the walls of
our schools would allow our children to learn about their
personages, their messages and their meanings. For it is with
the assistance of the past that we can make our children
dedicated and responsible onin any job.
Not only are the walls of our schools sterile of life
giving and rewarding mesages, but the halls are sterile of
parents. In mostof our public schools there are no active
parents (non-paid parents) in the school, very few, if any
non paid parents doing voluntary work and very few
parents able to keep abreast of the educational develop
ment of our children, parents are made to feel unwanted
an unimportant in education. This is the case, irrespective
of what professional administrators of education recite.
In closing, we must develop a guideline for ourselves and
the community e.g.
"I WILL HELP EVERY BLACK CHILD TO DEVELOP
THE SKILLS TO SURVIVE. I WILL TEACH THAT THE
HIGHEST GOOD IN LIFE IS TO SERVE BLACK
PEOPLE, HELPING ALL BLACK PEOPLE IN THE
STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE."
case. Then a also there is the Sears case. Rev. Jesse Jackson
says that if something can't be worked out with
Sears, maybe there will have be boycott consideration.
Black Americans still must seriously devise ways to be
come first class citizens of these United States and now
allow white America to elevate all foreigners, who have had
no part in America's growth, to a higher echelon of citizen
ship than the blacks
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The state with the most automobiles is California, with
10,832,649 cars.
Urban League
To Co-Sponsor
Conferonco
In a major effort to
foster greater awareness
and understnding of how
the urban environment
impacts on the lives of city
residents, the National
Urban League has jone
joined with two other or
ganizations, the Sierra Club
and the Urban Environment
Conference and
Foundation, in the co
sponorship of
a national conference sche
duled for this Spring,
April 8-1 1 in Detroit.. .
While the "environment"
is most often thought of in
terms of areas outside the
city, inner-city residents
are confronted with special
environmental concerns
including massive air pollu
tion and the need for im
proved housing, adequate
sanitation efforts, better ro
dent control and more re
creational and open space
facilities.
It is these concerns that
have led the National Urban
League to become the
first national minority-b
based organization to enter
the environmental educa
tion, and an environmental
job study and now
through co-sponsorhsip of
the April meeting which has
been titled "City Care - To
ward a Coalition for the
Urban Environment."
Funds for the Confer
ence are being provided
through grants from the En
vironmental Protection
Agency, the Department of
Housing and Urban Deve
lopment, the Department of
Interior and the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The Conference will
bring together inner city
residents, environmentalists,
labor leaders, business
leaders and others to gain
a consensus on how to
improve the quality of life
in the nation's urban area.
Conference objectives in
clude identifying a national
agenda to advance coopera
tion among labor, environ
mental and community
groups; melding the socio
economic environmen t
more closely with the
physical environmental
improvement
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