Negro Married Men Gain in Blue Collar Jobs
A Census Bureau tabulation shows Negro married men earning 28 percent of new craftsmen in 1969, up from a population share of 11 percent. The median income of Black blue collar workers rose 44 percent versus 27 percent for white peers, signaling gradual racial barrier breakdown per Sar Levitan of George Washington University.
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Sar Levitan
George Washington University
Center For Manpower Policy Studies
Economist
Census Bureau
Levitan
America
June 18 highlights through history in brief
On this date in 1815 Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Philadelphia evacuated by British in 1778. U S declares war in 1812. Cherbourg falls to Nazis in 1940. Buckner killed in Okinawa in 1945. Egypt proclaimed republic in 1953. Adams gifts controversy in 1958. Eisenhower visit to Taipei in 1958. Dominican plan proposed by OAS in 1963. North Viet forces attack in 1968 but fail.
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Waterloo
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United States
Britain
Cherbourg
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Simon
Organization of American States
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Williamsburg To Host 24th Annual Council of State Governments Meeting
More than 600 people are expected at Colonial Williamsburg for the 24th annual meeting of the Sou Conference of the Council of State Governments. Governors Rockefeller and Holton will welcome delegates and State Sen. Delaney of Vermont will deliver the keynote.
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Council of State Governments
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
Board of
Colonial Williamsburg, Inc
Southern Governors Conference
Charles L. Delaney
Vermont
Virginia
Linwood Holton
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