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The Fairmont papers : Black Alternatives Conference, San Francisco, December 1980 / Bernard E. Anderson ... [et al.].

Title
  1. The Fairmont papers : Black Alternatives Conference, San Francisco, December 1980 / Bernard E. Anderson ... [et al.].
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  1. San Francisco, Calif. : Institute for Contemporary Studies, c1981.
Author
  1. Black Alternatives Conference (1980 : San Francisco)

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Additional authors
  1. Anderson, Bernard E
  2. Institute for Contemporary Studies
Description
  1. xiii, 174 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. A discussion of issues affecting the economic and social advancement of blacks in the United States.
Subject
  1. African Americans -- Congresses
  2. African Americans -- Education -- Congresses
  3. African Americans -- Economic conditions -- Congresses
  4. African Americans -- Suffrage -- Congresses
  5. United States -- Race relations -- Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
Contents
  1. Politics and opportunity: the background / Thomas Sowell -- Legal barriers to black economic gains: employment and transportation / Walter E. Williams -- Economic growth: the central issue / Michael J. Boskin -- False assumptions about black education / Thomas Sowell -- Expanding choice and opportunities for entrepreneurship / James Lorenz -- Five policy proposals / Dan J. Smith -- Black lawyers: struggling to survive / Thomas L. Berkley -- Joining the political process / Charles V. Hamilton -- Politics, power, and horsetrading: the broad opportunities / Tony Brown -- Government is the problem / Milton S. Friedman -- A skeptic persuaded? / Percy E. Sutton -- A significant blessing / Edwin Messe III.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
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