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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Friday, October 15, INS

THANKS TO
THOMAS E.

EWEY
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DISCRIMINATION
OUTLAWED

•• IN EMPLOYMENT
• IN ADMISSION TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

IN NEW YORK STATE . . . SETTING A PATTERN FOR OTHER STATES TO FOLLOW

The provisions of the New York law are based on It simple
philosophy, stated in the act itself:

What, Governor Dewey has done to outlaw discrimination in
employment has been followed by an equally vigorous cam-
paign by the Governor to eliminate discrimination in the col-
leges of the state—a campaign which resulted in the passage of
a law by the Legislature specifically directed to this end.

This took political courage. For large and important groups in
the state were up in arms against the measure in its entirety.
The very idea of F.E.P.C. at this time a red flag to many em-
ployers, who, had not come to understand the way in which the
measure would work in practice.

On March 12, the bill was finally passed, and was signed
by
Governor Dewey before an audience of more than two hundred
persons.

"Today we are witnessing an act which gives
living reality to the principles of our country ...

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not only is this bill a reaffirmation of the great

principles by which we live, it is an expression of

confidence that government, is not such a clumsy
thing that it cannot solve delicate problems."

"Practices of discrimination against any of (the
state's) inhabitants, because of race, creed, color
or national origin, are a matter of state con-
cern: ... such discrimination threatens not only
the nights and proper privileges of (the state's-
inhabitants, 'but menaces the institutions and
foundation of a free democratic state."

In signing the bill the Governor said:

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In fact, the plp.nk in the 1948 Republican National Platform
in favor of "equality of eductional opportunity for all'' was
inserted largely at the instigation of Governor Dewey himself.

The New York State law against discriniination in higher edu-
cation originated in the appointment by Governor Dewey,
almost two years ago, of a Commission on the Need for a State
University, to study the educational needs of New York e State
and to bring in recommendations for increasing the educational
opportunities of the young people of the state.

In signing the bill into law, Governor Dewey called it
"a further
step by New York State to reduce obnoxious and undemocratic
barriers based on religious belief or accident of birth."

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