E C
of the Union of South Africa
to protest the nation's system
of racist ap rtheid and "state
upported violence".
The hi toric demonstration,
organized by the TransAfrica
lobby here, ignalled a depart­
ure from the League's usual,
conciliatory, interracial
During the
gue's 75th annive ry conven­
tion here la t week, over 2,000
predominantly middle cla de-
egat took unprecedented
ction by m rching through the
C pit I treet to the Ernba y
VOL. VII 0.36
AUGUST 5 - 11, 1985
U BAN
LEAGUE
SAYS YES
The middle class uburb n
stance of the ichigan Demo­
cr tic P rty s pers nified by
Gov. James Bl nchard ha put
the st te's BI ck voters in a
mood to switch partie - if
the Republi ans field iIliam
Luc for governor.
That is the conclusi n of an
rban Le gue report relea ed
July 30.
e find that Bla k
becoming
ted with the pro res and con­
cern of the pre nt Dem ratic
admini tr ti n in the st te,' id
Joe Darden, dean f the Urban
Affairs Pr r m t i hi n
of the
11 of
re riou Jy c n-
sidering som alternative....
The climate is right for Blacks
to make a change in party,
provided th t the candidate is a
Willi m Lucas ' Darden said.
Author of the report studied
several Black issues, in luding
Black political awarene s, eq­
uity in education, the BI ck
family, teenage pregnancy nd
economic development. The
authors said they used their
own "interpretive discussions'
in making conslusions.
A
G
appro ch UL President
John E. Jacob called upon the
South African government, U.S.
President Ronald Re g nand
major U.S. corporations, in­
cluding several which support
the League, to take immediate
teps 'to put the sere s on
South African racists.
CHICAGO "If you're
hite, you're right; BI ck,
g t b ck.' That old liche
h Ids tTU in the Cook County
Illinois court system ccord­
in to tudy conducted by
R nd Corp. and rele sed July
24.
R nd, a California think
t n ex mined 9,000 civil jury
tri Is from J 959 to 1979.
It found' th t in the United
The report found that Black
pJaintiffs received smaller
awards than whites with similar
injuri , but found that BI ck
defendant were ed smaller
damage w rds than whites.
Another finding was that
jurors returned damage awards
one third larger ag inst cor­
poration than g inst individ­
uals. And in case involving
c1 im of vere injury cor­
porations were signficantly more
likely to be found li ble.
ree
influen e on the
ivil jury trials."
perv sive
utcomes of
o E 0 TH EE REVIEWS
"Our analyse suggest that
litigants' chances in a lawsuit
depended upon who they were,'
said the study, one of three
such reviews of the Cook
County court system by Rand
Corp's. Institute for Civil
Justice.
"One major implication of
our finding. . . is th t juries
do not always adhere to for­
mal leg I standards,' said
Gustave H. Shubert, director f
the institute.
The 10 -p ge study found
that liability wa con i tent
Black Racer
Cracks
The Color �- .
Barrier
- e P
Wilbur Rich
politic I cience
r.
unu ual
f r Bl�
r to.
when both partie were of the
same race. but. there s
difference when they were not
of the same race.
White plaintiffs, for
e ample, won 62 percent of the
lip-and-fall case against Blacks,
while Black plaintiffs won only
50 percent gainst white the
report said.
BI s won auto accident
verdict 40 percent of the time
compared with 46 percent for
whi te . hen Blac s on such
case. they received 74 percent
of what hite receiv d for the
me-injury.
10 PERCE T LESS
The study id a rd
a inst Bl ck defend nts were
10 perc nt le than a ards
gainst white. Black plaintiff
awards from BI ck defendants
were only 67 percent of what
white pi intiff: receiv d from
white defend nts.
Thi p ttem m y refle t the
juror perception th t -BI
are Ie ab e to pay d m e
than white. th report
e ted.
