On this date in 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Hawkins-Humphrey Full Employment Bill.
Co-authored and sponsored by Black Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins, with Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, a leading champion of civil rights, this act was also called the “Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act.”
Reference:
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History
Volume 1, ISBN #0-02-897345-3
Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West
