Nature of the Federal Bureacracy
Bureaucracy with Race Missions
Running the Bureaucracy:
AA Political Appointees
Staffing the Bureaucracy: AA Civil Servants
Shaping Bureaucratic Policy/Bureaucratic Implementation
100
Max Weber defined this as a form of power based on knowledge - rationality and hierarchically organized
What is bureacracy
100
The first federal bureau with a race mission, established in 1865 and dissolved in 1872.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
100
During the New Deal Era (1932-1945) this woman announced: “My people will not be satisfied until they see some black faces in high places.” The first African American appointed to a major position in the bureaucracy did not occur until 1961.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune
100
After a brief probation – people in these positions may not be fired. They become part of the permanent government. These positions influence and impact bureaucratic rule making and policy, any group needs a continuing presence and permanency inside bureaucracy, a day-to-day involvement.
What is civil servants
100
The federal bureaucracy cannot protect and promote African American civil and voting rights unless it has these in place to implement the laws.
What are rules and regulations.
200
A) Must execute law B) Must write rules so to execute the law C) Must adjudicate between claimants and resolve disputes when disagreements arise about proper procedures, regulations, guidelines and federal practices.
What are the functions of bureacracy
200
Social, educational, and medical benefits, assistance cultivating abandon lands and help to ensure fair wages.
What are services provided to newly freed enslaved black people
200
This bureaucracy set about to systemically harass, discredit, and destroy America’s preeminent civil rights leaders, most notable - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
200
The time of the passage of this Act in 1883, created the civil servant. There were only 620 black civil servants in the federal government by 1893. African American civil servants had risen to 2,393, but this 74% increase was met with southern opposition.
What is the Pendleton Act
200
President Ronald Reagan in the first week of his second term signed Executive Order #12498, requiring all units of the federal bureaucracy to submit all rules or regulations being considered to this office, in the Executive Office of the President. All antidiscrimination policies could be stopped even before they were drafted.
What is the OMB – Office of Management and Budget
300
The Executive Office of the President, fifteen cabinet departments, Independent agencies, government corporations and independent regulatory commissions
What are the five major categories of federal bureaucracies.
300
Established in 1939, within the Justice Department to put federal government on the side of those fighting for civil rights.
What is the civil liberties unit.
300
President Theodore Roosevelt appointed a significant number of African American advisors, informally known as Famous advisors to the president were: Frederick Douglass (Lincoln and Grant), Booker T. Washington (Cleveland, Harrison, T. Roosevelt and Taft).
What is the ‘the black cabinet.’
300
Federal acceptance of the southern system of segregation was becoming more acceptable, to such a degree that President Woodrow Wilson saw this film at the White House and endorsed it.
What is The Birth of a Nation
300
This allows the president on an informal basis to establish regulatory priorities of all federal agencies, thus removing the right of agencies to determine their own priorities. Race related antidiscrimination regulations and rule making has all but disappeared from the federal government. President Reagan set a trend to eliminate race related civil rights as a priority.
What are 'Prompt Papers'
400
Are supposed to be beyond direct presidential and congressional influence.
What are the independent regulatory commissions.
400
In 1957, The civil liberties unit became the Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the Justice Department. Necessity forced the government to create two types of federal agencies with a racial mission. Both types faced strong public criticism, driven in part by southern racial hostilities.
What is the 1) Relief agencies (material based) 2) Protection agencies (rights based)
400
In 1966, President Johnson became the first president to appoint African American Robert Weaver to this cabinet rank
What is the secretary of HUD.
400
In 1914, the U.S. Civil Service Commission, made this mandatory on all application forms. This requirement was not removed until 1940. This practice became an overt instrument of race discrimination.
What is photograph
400
The founding of the Republic recognized three races. US Census Bureau declared: People having African ancestry mixed with Native and/or European blood are returned as Black. Mixtures of non-white races should be reported according to the race of the father, unless they have African ancestry.
What are Black, White and Red races.
500
The top four cabinet departments
What is the department of state, treasury department, department of defense and department of justice.
500
Four federal bureaus devoted to an explicitly racial mission
What is the 1) Commission on Civil Rights 2) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) 3) Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Holiday Commission 4) Civil Rights and Voting Rights Unit in the Justice Department
500
In 1992, This President broke new ground by placing African Americans in his cabinet – Energy, Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Commerce and numerous others to subcabinet positions. George W Bush, not only appointed a large number of blacks, his overall appointments were the most ethnically diverse in history.
Who is President Bill Clinton
500
After 1913 African American’s were mainly employed at federal agencies disproportionately as custodial, menial and junior clerical positions. The NAACP and other African American groups fought this trend most effectively through this Act.
What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act
500
_________ agencies have tended to pursue only voluntary, cautious, temporary, and persuasive enforcement efforts to avoid being perceived of violating ___________. This leads to diminution of anti-discriminatory rules and regulations.
What is Federal agencies and states’ rights
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