Christine Schmid

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) testified against the bill, arguing quite correctly that it was “like a sieve with holes just big enough for the majority of Negroes to fall through.” The National Urban League strongly advocated the alternative bill proposed by Congressman Lundeen because it included “farmers and domestic workers and personal service workers.”
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
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