The Fairmont Papers: Black Alternatives Conference, San Francisco, December 1980


The Fairmont Papers: Black Alternatives Conference, San Francisco, December 1980
The Fairmont Papers: Black Alternatives Conference, San Francisco, December 1980 is a collection of edited excerpts from transcripts of the Black Alternatives Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, that took place on December 12 and 13th, 1980, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Below is the table of contents.



CONTENTS



CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
I
Introduction


1 Politics and Opportunity: The Background
THOMAS SOWELL
Responses: DAN J. SMITH
OSCAR WRIGHT


II
Economic Issues


Introduction: WENDELL WILKIE GUNN
2 Legal Barriers to Black Economic Gains:
Employment and Transportation
WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Responses: MARIA LUCIA JOHNSON
CLARENCE M. PENDLETON, JR.
3 Economic Growth: The Central Issue
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
Responses BERNARD E. ANDERSON
and answers: WALTER E. WILLIAMS
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN


III
Education: Black Priorities


Introduction: RANDOLPH W. BROMERY
4 False Assumptions about Black Education
THOMAS SOWELL
Responses: CLARENCE THOMAS
OSCAR WRIGHT


IV
Business and the Professions


Introduction: HENRY LUCAS, JR.
5 Expanding Choice and Oppourtunities
for Entrepreneurship
JAMES LORENZ
6 Five Policy Proposals
DAN J. SMITH
Response: WALTER E. WILLIAMS
7 Black Lawyers: Struggling to Survive
THOMAS L. BERKLEY
Response to
Part IV:
WENDELL WILKIE GUNN


V
Politics: Goals and Strategies


Introduction: CHUCK STONE
8 Joining the Political Process
CHARLES V. HAMILTON
9 Politics, Power, and Horsetrading:
The Broad Oppourtunities
TONY BROWN
Responses to
Part V:
MARTIN L. KILSON
ROBERT B. HAWKINS, JR.
GLORIA E. A. TOOTE


VI
Ideas and Questions


10 Government Is the Problem
MILTON S. FRIEDMAN
11 A Skeptic Persuaded?
PERCY E. SUTTON
12 A Significant Beginning
EDWIN MEESE III



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