The Nation - News from July 12, 1989
Mayor Coleman A. Young, citing Detroit as the nation’s chief victim of racist abandonment, told the NAACP its pursuit of freedom faces challenges as strong as when it was founded 80 years ago. Young, elected Detroit’s first black mayor in 1973, said blacks who poured into Detroit to fill the automobile plants were “seeking jobs and freedom.” Now, he said, jobs are moving out of the country and “freedom is being undermined by the Supreme Court” and by policies of former President Ronald Reagan. Gov. James J. Blanchard told the Detroit convention Michigan will continue affirmative action and set-aside programs despite adverse decisions from the high court.
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