The Nation - News from June 24, 1985
NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks criticized the Reagan Administration for fighting affirmative action and said confirmation of the President’s choice of William Bradford Reynolds for associate attorney general would be “an insult” to minorities. Reynolds is currently assistant attorney general and head of the civil rights division. Hooks spoke to 2,000 delegates at the opening of the weeklong convention in Dallas of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People.
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