By Bernice Oro
Corr . ondent
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m. TO II A ItBOR M ry
Defoe. pr side m of the Twin
Citic Branch of NAACP.
told the city commi ion Mon­
d y. March 5, he would like
to ee the 'city of Benton Har­
bor come in compliance with
flirmative action.
DcFoc : aid sh ha a ked
(or a copy of the city' affirm­
tive ction plan, but has not
r ccivcd one yet.
She also read the commis­
ion p rt of the affirmative c­
tion pl' n that s e tabli hed
in )957 hy the AACP. which
. id IS ·till in effect nd
e City Manager Steve
nning a que uonaire to fill
\luI.
"An Affirmative Action and
Local Re ident Job Policy
(LRJP) tell how the city
could get the local government
to make more jobs available
for Bls ck citizens", aid
DcFoc. and "the LRJP requires
tnat locat re ident get the fir. t
crac at local job and thei r
tax doll' rs generate and ub-
idize tho c local job ."
"For example". h said, "If
city or a town h . a minority
population of 25 percent. ther
45 percent of n w job and att
jobs would go to th
minority."
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By S.
Staff Reporter
DETROIT - Receiving only a
two-day notice for a meeting
. was one thing.
But, being cut off while ad­
dressing a .erowd is obvio y
enough to make Wayne State
University students leave way
before adjornment.
Leigh Smith and Mikal An­
sari, WSU stu n °d they
1 at Pie nt Grove Baptist
Church, 13651 Dequindre, COD-
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"The LRJ P has high appeal
to all racial ethnic group ."
he saill,.and it also gives low
income whites their. hare by
filling Job since it is ba ed
on residency.
DEFOE SAil) no TON
was the fir t city to e tahlish
LRJP in 1979.
She aid that Boston's
LRJP requires, that from 100
percent of the total workforce
on public supported construc­
tion job. 25 percent of the
job'. cr It hy craft go to
minorities; 10 percent go to
women; and 50 percent of the
jobs go to Boston residents.
De Foe also told the com­
mission th t AACP ha
joined in with the Civil Right
Commission and Oper tion
PUSH in proiesti ng the j usti fi­
able homicid ruling on the
recent death of orri Mahcn.
She said me FBI had been
in the ciry la�l cck and hoped
that they could come to ome
conclu. ion before any further
action i taken.
c
ceming the pr posed Africana
Studies Depar ent.
The corres ondence stipu­
lated, the Bap Pastors Coun­
cil, authors of e letters, would
be mediators, mith said.
WSU stude ts showed up in
record numb rs along with
Professor lori House
,
Department of Africana
Studies chair candidate, ad­
visory comm nity members
K a as U
port them in writing, but they
r f d.
lnste d the Council call d
the meeting inviting the stu­
dents to ma e pre entations .
University officials w re put on
the agenda to respond to stu­
dent concer . and to present a
Department update.
Studen charged, they had
no input concerning the make
up of the agend .
Charle Butler, Council
· student· a
minutes to pe .
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