On this date in 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Hawkins-Humphrey Full Employment Bill.
This act, co-authored and sponsored by Black Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins and Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, was also known as the 'Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act.'
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Volume 1, ISBN #0-02-897345-3
Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West
