Dear Prudence: Nice to read your comment. I worked for your husband, Dan (sorry to hear he's gone) during the time I was in the General Counsel's Office at the EEOC, which was from Oct. 4, 1965, until June 18, 1973. I don't know what you mean by referring to Clifford Alexander as the EEOC's "first Commissioner." The EEOC began operations on July 2, 1965, with five commissioners and Clifford Alexander was not one of them. He was the EEOC's third chairman and served from 1967-1969. The EEOC's first hearings were not held in Hollywood to address discrimination in the film industry but involved discrimination based on gender against stewardesses. Perhaps you mean the first hearings held during the tenure of Clifford Alexander and Dan. Finally, the greater establishment of athletic programs for women in academia had nothing to do with the EEOC, which administers Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but came about because of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Best, Sonia Pressman Fuentes
In reply to <p>My late husband, Daniel by Prudence L. Steiner
Dear Prudence: Nice to read your comment. I worked for your husband, Dan (sorry to hear he's gone) during the time I was in the General Counsel's Office at the EEOC, which was from Oct. 4, 1965, until June 18, 1973. I don't know what you mean by referring to Clifford Alexander as the EEOC's "first Commissioner." The EEOC began operations on July 2, 1965, with five commissioners and Clifford Alexander was not one of them. He was the EEOC's third chairman and served from 1967-1969. The EEOC's first hearings were not held in Hollywood to address discrimination in the film industry but involved discrimination based on gender against stewardesses. Perhaps you mean the first hearings held during the tenure of Clifford Alexander and Dan. Finally, the greater establishment of athletic programs for women in academia had nothing to do with the EEOC, which administers Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but came about because of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Best, Sonia Pressman Fuentes