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In 1977, Congress enacted the Public Works Employment Act, the first federal statute of general application containing an explicit racial classification. The Act, designed to pump four billion dollars of federal funds into a flagging economy, contained a provision which ensured that ten percent of t...
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ftyaleunivlawsch:oai:openyls.law.yale.edu:20.500.13052/716 2024-09-15T18:04:57+00:00 Fullilove Days, Drew 2021-11-25T13:34:17.000 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/716 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1487 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2470&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 unknown fss_papers/1487 1744623 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/716 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1487 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2470&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 Faculty Scholarship Series 2021 ftyaleunivlawsch https://doi.org/20.500.13052/716 2024-06-26T03:14:51Z In 1977, Congress enacted the Public Works Employment Act, the first federal statute of general application containing an explicit racial classification. The Act, designed to pump four billion dollars of federal funds into a flagging economy, contained a provision which ensured that ten percent of that amount would be allocated to business enterprises owned by United States citizens who were "Negroes, Spanish-speaking, Orientals, Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts." Three years later, in Fullilove v. Klutznick, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Act by a vote of six to three. Other/Unknown Material eskimo* Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (eYLS) |
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In 1977, Congress enacted the Public Works Employment Act, the first federal statute of general application containing an explicit racial classification. The Act, designed to pump four billion dollars of federal funds into a flagging economy, contained a provision which ensured that ten percent of that amount would be allocated to business enterprises owned by United States citizens who were "Negroes, Spanish-speaking, Orientals, Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts." Three years later, in Fullilove v. Klutznick, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Act by a vote of six to three. |
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